A former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, has said Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, is a political emperor whose time will soon end in eight months.
Lamido stated this during an interview on Channels TV on Tuesday when asked if Wike’s current stance could hurt the party’s chances in the 2023 elections.
Recall that Wike fell out with the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar who is Lamido’s ally.
“Please leave Wike alone. He has the right to do whatever he wants. He can give order if people in Rivers are slaves to him,” Lamido retorted. “If they are his own slave, he can control them. Fair enough, he is their emperor let him give them order.”
“I saw him on TV the other day and I felt a little worried the way he (Wike) was talking because he was too bombastic,” he continued. “In the next eight months, Wike will be like me, in the same political dustbin of former governors.”
The Rivers State governor had described Lamido as one of the “attack dogs” of the PDP presidential candidate.
The PDP crisis took a bad turn after Atiku dumped Wike to pick Delta governor Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate, after the presidential primary election on May 28.