A political support group in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River has called on the Governor of Rivers state to declare intention to run for the office of President in view of the anticipated 2023 general elections across Nigeria NEGROIDHAVEN can report.
The PDP Renaissance during a Tuesday press briefing in Calabar the Cross River capital city asked River’s governor, Nyesom Wike Esq, to publicly declare intention to via for the 2023 presidential elections.
In a statement jointly signed by fourteen of its members made up of serving 9th State House of Assembly members, former Commissioners, former Special Advisers, and former senior appointees they urged Nigeria’s leading opposition political party, the PDP to ‘present a man with character and content as flagbearer for the party’s presidential ticket in 2023 in order to further strengthen the faith of the people in the Nigerian polity’.
Continuing the body observed that ‘the group further notes in particular, the sterling leadership qualities and development strides of the Rivers state governor, His Excellency Barr Nyesom Wike, and after a careful prognosis of the political situation in the country, characterised by high level insecurity across board, rising banditry, the proliferation of secessionist groups currently threatening the very fabric of our national unity, hereby calls on His Excellency, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, to declare for the 2023 presidential elections in order to salvage Nigeria’.
The group which also highlighted the ability of Gov Wike to resolve insecurity in Rivers state and by extension initiated peace in the Niger Delta region observed that they ‘consider this trait as a major panacea required in resolving the current security crisis plaguing the country’.
They added that while Wike is spiritually, psychologically and politically stable to run the country, said that Nigeria is in dire need of a leadership that will result into prosperity hinged on fiscal federalism.
