Rivers State Governor, Barrister Nyesom Wike, on Friday, during a programme – Sunrise Daily, on Channels TV, disclosed that Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, who was re-elected in the recently concluded Governorship election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is at liberty to defect to his former party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Wike revealed that, although he will be disappointed by such post election move because PDP “clothed” and “gave him an umbrella” during his time of ordeal in his party.
Obaseki defected from the APC to the PDP in June 2020 at the peak of misunderstanding with his predecessor and former National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomole.
He contested on the platform of the PDP in the September 19 governorship election and won.
Parts of the statement read, “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.
He continued, “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.”