Wike Apologises To Oshiomhole For Supporting Obaseki’s Re-Election

----Says we were happy when APC Sacked Oshiomhole as National Chairman.

 

By Editor

Nov 16, 2022

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike of River State on Wednesday apologised to former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, for supporting the re-election of Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State in September 2020.

Channels Television reports that Wike tendered the apology to Oshiomhole at the inauguration of the Rumuepirikom Flyover in the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of the state which the ex-APC chairman commissioned.

The Rivers state governor, pointed  out that he supported the reelection of Governor Godwin Obaseki  in retaliation to what Oshiomole did to him when he was contesting for governor.

Wike, who also stated that Adams Oshiomhole was a very strong man who normally said things that affected his party, added that they were happy when he lost the election to Obaseki.

According to Wike, he has learnt and the past should remain in the past.

“I use this opportunity to apologise to you. I came to Edo State to make sure your candidate didn’t win election. I said you won’t win and you didn’t win. That assignment has been done and we now know who is who,” Wike told a smiling Oshiomhole.

“We were happy that you were going because you’re too strong. Anybody who watches you talk sometimes might not know what to say again. So the day you were removed, we said, “God, we thank you that this troublesome man has gone. He has given us a lot of heat, so you can see how comfortable we’re now.

Wike, however, stated that he and Oshiomhole are now friends. He further stated that Peter Obi would come and inaugurate with him on Thursday.

“We are now friends, let bygones be bygones,” Wike, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) strongman told the ex-APC national chairman.

“I want to sincerely apologise to you. Each time you learn. People will praise you when you do for them. When you say, they are wrong, they begin to say all sorts of things.

“I’m sure those of them in my party before cannot do anything without Wike but because I said let the right thing be done, let agreement be agreement, I have now become an enemy. These are people who are praising me morning and night,” he maintained, noting that he stands on equity, fairness and justice.

According to him, we were happy that you were going because you’re too strong. Anybody who watches you talk sometimes might not know what to say again. So the day you were removed, we said, “God, we thank you that this troublesome man has gone. He has given us a lot of heat, so you can see how comfortable we’re now.

In his speech, the former governor of Edo State as well as the former National Chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomhole said politics is not war.

 Oshiomhole lauded Wike for the many “beautiful projects” in Rivers, saying results don’t lie.

"Executive exchanges have a way of communicating to the people that political divide is not war.

“I listened to you (Wike) attentively and you said Peter Obi is coming tomorrow. I want to congratulate you for that because I also invited Peter Obi when I was governor and those executive exchanges have a way of communicating to our people that political divide is not war,”he stated.

“I also invited governors from other states to Edo the last one week before my tenure as you said, for them to see what I was able to do.

“I promise that when I get back to Abuja, I will use my mouth to talk what my mouth saw. The flyover I saw is not a culvert. There are people who commissioned culverts and said they were flyovers but what I am seeing here is a beautiful flyover which you will see anywhere in the world,” he added.