“I’m A Local Champion”, Says Nyesom Wike

After a review of his emergence as the Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike has described himself as “a local champion.”

The reason, Wike said is because he has spent all his life in Port Harcourt where he attended his primary, secondary schools and university in the state.

The only time he said he spent outside Port Harcourt was “when I went to Lagos for my Law School, that is a professional one.”

Wike who spoke Saturday in Port Harcourt during an interactive forum with reporters also described himself as the engine room of former Governor Chibuike Amaechi’s election into office.

The governor explained that he was teaching those in Amaechi’s camp the way to play the game of politics, because “there is no polling booth in the state that I do not know or do not know anybody.”

For those who have been criticizing his emergence as governor, he said, “the fact is that I was prepared for that election.

“I was a Council Chairman. There is nowhere in this state that I do not know. There is no ward I do not know one person.

“As I sit down here, I can mention one, one person from each ward. I know the politicians in this state. I know who has strength and who does not have strength.”

The governor also said that during the course of the campaigns, “I never emaciated one day, the truth of the matter is that if you do the election 100 times in this state, I will win.”

On the sacked lecturers of Rivers State Polytechnic, Bori, Wike said that they were people who have not started work with the school at all. [The Nation]