The Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Dino Melaye has made it clear to Governor Neeson Wike of Rivers State that the party’s Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, will win next year’s election in the State, with his support or without it.
He said that Governor Wike cannot do anything to change who the people of his state would vote for, saying that the Governor is not the custodian of votes in the State.
Dino Melaye, who spoke in an interview session said that it is wrong for Wike to think Atiku would fail in Rivers State.
“It’s very fallacious for you to think that because that governor is not with your candidate he will lose the State.
“I will cast your mind back to a day when you sat down and wrote results for a State. We are not in that era any longer. With the advent of BVAS and electronic transmission of results, in Rivers State, for example, Governor Wike is not the custodian or he is not to appropriate the votes of Rivers.
“If you now go to elections as it’s now with electoral reforms, the grassroots matters; the electorate matter; the youth and women matter. “That is why Atiku is speaking directly to the conscience of the electorate,” Melaye said.
