Atiku: Wike is not the custodian of Rivers state votes – Dino Melaye

Spokesperson of the Atiku-Okowa presidential campaign council, Dino Melaye has said Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is not the custodian of votes in the State.

Wike and five other PDP governors have been aggrieved with Atiku and the party’s leadership after he lost the presidential primaries.

However, Atiku in a statement through his spokesperson said it’s wrong for Wike to think he would fail in Rivers State.He stressed that the governor can’t decide who the people of the State would vote.

“It’s very fallacious for you to think that because that governor is not with your candidate he will lose the State, he said

“I will cast your mind back to a day when you sat down and wrote result 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 told Channels TV.