Wike vows to end banditry in six months, if elected president

Governor Nyesom Wike has vowed to end banditry in the country in six months, if elected president in 2023.

Wike is a presidential hope under the auspices of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Speaking in Abeokuta, Ogun state where he met with party delegates, Wike said he would provide security agencies with necessary work tools they would need to stamp out banditry.

“The basic thing in my first six months as president of Nigeria is to end banditry.

“All those bandits, let them wait for me. I will pursue them. It is my job.

“I will provide to security agencies whatever they require,” said Wike while lamenting consequences of insecurity to business investment.

The Rivers state governor described himself as “a strong, courageous and fearless leader”, the type that is needed to “resolve the challenges facing the country.”

He urged the delegates to vote him at the PDP convention where a standard bearer for the party will emerge.

He also described himself as a staunch PDP member and the only one among the presidential aspirants who has never left the party at any time.

“Today, we are suffering. We are in opposition.

“Who are those people who took the power that PDP had and gave it to APC. You know them,” the governor said, in veiled diatribe to Atiku Abubakar and Governor Aminu Tambuwal.

“Whether I win the ticket or not, I will never leave PDP.

“I will support PDP, I will make sure PDP wins the election.

“I am not those when anything happens they run away from the party.

“I will not leave this party because everything I am today, it is PDP that has given it to me. So I owe PDP a lot.”