Gov Wike Reacts To Rumours Of Obaseki’s ‘Planned Return’ To APC, Says Not Possible

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said it is “not going to be possible” for Governor Godwin Obaseki to return to the All Progressives Congress (APC) after winning the Edo governorship election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Wike was reacting to recent speculations that Obaseki might want to return to his former party after winning his re-election bid.

The speculations had become intense after an old video where Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu was seen urging the Edo governor to return to the APC, resurfaced online. Ize-Iyamu had lost the September 19 election to Obaseki.

But speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily on Friday, Wike said he was confident that Obaseki would not return to the APC.

He said, “I don’t want to discuss something that is not going to be possible. However, assuming it happens, so what? That is politics.

“If the governor believes that the PDP is no longer a party for him to actualise his vision and his mission, there is nothing wrong but I don’t believe that it is going to happen because the governor has consistently told us that there is no way he will leave the PDP. If he leaves the PDP, people in Edo State will not be happy.

“And he is somebody I have that trust in that he will not leave the party. This is a party that clothed him. This is a party that when it was raining, gave him an umbrella.”

Meanwhile, Governor Obaseki had also refuted the rumours when he visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Friday.

The governor told State House correspondents that it would be “immoral” of him to return the APC.