I’ll Announce My Presidential Candidate In January.

The Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that he would name his preferred candidate for president in January 2023.

On Thursday, the governor made this statement and said that he would vigorously promote his preferred candidate throughout the nation.

As he gave his government’s ninth flyover in Rivers’ Obio-Akpor Local Government Area, Wike vowed, “I will campaign to my people whomever they would vote for from January next year.”

“So please wait, all of you who have been waiting and abusing me in various ways. It’s January already.

During elections, he promised, “I won’t simply tell them (his supporters) who to vote for; I’ll travel from state to state and explain why they should.”

Wike and Atiku Abubakar have been at war about who will govern Iyorchia Ayu since Wike’s loss in the PDP presidential primary in May.

Former Vice President Atiku harmed Wike after the presidential primaries by choosing Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate rather than his main rival.

Wike and the other four PDP governors, commonly known as the G5 or the Integrity Group, have requested that Ayu, who was born in Benue, quit and be replaced by a southerner in order to support Atiku’s campaign for the president in 2023.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, a G5 member and one of Wike’s friends, and Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State met earlier in December in an attempt to resolve the disagreement. However, nothing changed.

On The People’s Townhall on Channels Television later that day, Atiku said that despite his five meetings with Wike, a solution to the issue was not near. As a consequence, Ortom and Wike ignored Atiku, who had been in Benue earlier this month to campaign.