The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has said that the former federal lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye lacks the capacity to lead a state as a governor.
He made this revelation on Tuesday April 11, 2023 during a media chat in Port Harcourt, the capital of the state.
He explained that Melaye cannot defeat other governorship candidates if he wins the ticket on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party PDP.
He said Melaye will lose the state governorship election which is to take place, November 11 if given the ticket.
“When you give Dino that ticket you know he won’t win in Kogi state,” he said.
“You’re talking about governance of a state, we are not talking about drama.
“Dino does not have what it takes. What is he going to do? Why would Kogi people say they will vote for Dino? Are we joking?
“He does not have what it takes to be a governor at all. It is not about coming to act drama on television.”
The Informant247 earlier reported that the former federal lawmaker has declared interest in becoming the next Governor of Kogi State.
Melaye on Sunday March 26 took to his Twitter page to call on his supporters and followers to lend him support ahead of the governorship poll.
He said he was confident that the state will rise again if he becomes the governor of the state.
Melaye wrote: “Let’s do it together. We shall recover Kogi State.”
The screening committee of the party for Kogi State successfully screened Melaye, a former Senator representing Kogi West in the National Assembly, for the guber poll.
Report also has it that some party leaders have pitched their tents with Melaye, for him to become the flagbearer in the primary election.
There are speculations that the presidential candidate of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was supporting Melaye.
The media adviser to the presidential candidate, Paul Ibe, dismissed the allegation, saying his boss has no preferred candidate in the party primary.
Wike said : “Elections will come like what they are going for now in Kogi state. Of course, you have seen what is going on — how lists have been changed to favour a particular candidate (whose candidacy) as far as I am concerned is dead on arrival,” he said.