Wike To Obi: Those From Your State Criticising You Are Envious

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has urged Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) to pay no heed to envious critics, especially those from his home state of Anambra.

Wike Tells Obi That Those Criticising Him Are Envious

Wike advised on Thursday during the inauguration of the Nkpolu-Oroworokwo Flyover in Port Harcourt, the state capital.

The former Anambra governor and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed were in the state capital to commission the 9th flyover by the present administration.

“We have worked and you know we have worked. One reason I also brought you (Obi) is that I know you also worked well in Anambra,” Wike told Obi.

“Some people because of the level you are now, are envying you in your state. They can come out and say all kinds of rubbish. Don’t worry, that is how it is; it is your home person that will kill you first, so don’t bother about those things. 

“I have always told people when you are given an opportunity, use it to showcase what you can do, stop criticising somebody who has left, you have been given the opportunity now show it. I am a professor, professor well, I am a doctor, doctor well, I am a lawyer, lawyer well, I am a mechanic, mechanic well,” the governor said.

Kanyi Daily recalls that Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo; and Obi have been engaged in altercations on the state of Anambra’s economy.

He had said the investments Obi left in government are worth close to nothing.

Soludo also said Obi can’t win the 2023 presidential election as there are “two persons/parties seriously contesting for president”.

In his reply, Obi told Soludo that he did his little as governor of Anambra, adding that the governor should do his best in the state as an economics professor.