2023: Political Divide Should Not Lead To War – Oshiomhole Tells Wike

Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has stated that politics should not lead to war and create enmity.

Oshiomhole stated this on Wednesday at the inauguration of the Rumuepirikom Flyover in the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.

The former APC chairman asserted that executive exchanges have a way of communicating to the people that the political divide is not war.

He commended Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers for inviting the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi, and members of opposition parties to commission projects in the state.

Oshiomhole stated that he also invited the former Anambra governor to commission projects in Edo State when he was governor of the state.

He said: “I listened to you (Wike) attentively and you said Peter Obi is coming tomorrow. I want to congratulate you for that because I also invited Peter Obi when I was governor and those executive exchanges have a way of communicating to our people that political divide is not war.

“I also invited governors from other states to Edo the last week before my tenure as you said, for them to see what I was able to do.

“I promise that when I get back to Abuja, I go take my mouth talk am wetin my mouth see (sic). The flyover I saw is not a culvert. There are people who commissioned culverts and said they were flyovers but what I am seeing here is a beautiful flyover that you will see anywhere in the world.”

Naija News reports that Wike had invited members of opposition political parties to inaugurate projects in the oil-rich South-South state.

Obi is scheduled to inaugurate the Nkpolu-Oroworokwo Flyover on Thursday in Port Harcourt, the state capital, while President Muhammadu Buhari will commission the Nabo Graham Douglas Campus, Nigerian Law School, in Obio/Akpor on Friday.