{"id":63602,"date":"2022-04-22T14:07:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T13:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus"},"modified":"2022-04-22T15:21:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T14:21:12","slug":"2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus","title":{"rendered":"2023 Presidency: Only death will make me quit race \u2013 Wike rubbishes consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has vowed not to step down for any consensus candidate of the party ahead of its presidential primary.<\/p>\n

The Governor said only death will make him quit his ambition to become the President of Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing that will make me to quit is death; if I\u2019m alive, we will finish it on 28\/29 of May (date for PDP presidential primaries).\u201d<\/p>\n

He made the assertion in an interview with BBC pidgin in Port Harcourt on Friday.<\/p>\n

Wike, who spoke in pidgin English, said \u201cI have been a local government chairman which is the grassroot, I have been a minister and now a Governor. How many of the aspirants have such experience?\u201d<\/p>\n

He explained that former vice President Atiku Abubakar has only been a vice president, not a minister or even Governor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they put me and other aspirants side by side, the delegates will choose me, because I have been the one going from State to State telling them to vote for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would I step down for anybody? If you want to do consensus, you will do it with equity and fairness.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the consensus you want to do is to gang up against one or two people, why will I join in that type of consensus. The people talking about consensus, are their hands clean? Their hands are not clean,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Nigeria<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has vowed not to step down for any consensus candidate of the party ahead of its presidential primary. The Governor said only death will make him quit his ambition to become the President of Nigeria. \u201cThe only thing that will make me to quit is death; if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":63601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1872,1570,2140,254,454],"class_list":["post-63602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-2023-presidency","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-wike"],"yoast_head":"\n2023 Presidency: Only death will make me quit race \u2013 Wike rubbishes consensus - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has vowed not to step down for any consensus candidate of the party ahead of its presi ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2023 Presidency: Only death will make me quit race \u2013 Wike rubbishes consensus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has vowed not to step down for any consensus candidate of the party ahead of its presi ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-04-22T13:07:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-04-22T14:21:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/postQueueImg_19-6262b9bf9f722.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2023 Presidency: Only death will make me quit race \u2013 Wike rubbishes consensus\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-22T13:07:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-04-22T14:21:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus\"},\"wordCount\":254,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/postQueueImg_19-6262b9bf9f722.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2023 presidency\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"Wike\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus\",\"name\":\"2023 Presidency: Only death will make me quit race \u2013 Wike rubbishes consensus - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/postQueueImg_19-6262b9bf9f722.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-22T13:07:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-04-22T14:21:12+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has vowed not to step down for any consensus candidate of the party ahead of its presi ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/postQueueImg_19-6262b9bf9f722.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/postQueueImg_19-6262b9bf9f722.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":600,\"caption\":\"2023 Presidency: Only death will make me quit race \u2013 Wike rubbishes consensus\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"2023 Presidency: Only death will make me quit race \u2013 Wike rubbishes consensus\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"2023 Presidency: Only death will make me quit race \u2013 Wike rubbishes consensus - Nigeria","description":"Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has vowed not to step down for any consensus candidate of the party ahead of its presi ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"2023 Presidency: Only death will make me quit race \u2013 Wike rubbishes consensus","og_description":"Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has vowed not to step down for any consensus candidate of the party ahead of its presi ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2022-04-22T13:07:55+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-04-22T14:21:12+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":600,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/postQueueImg_19-6262b9bf9f722.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"2023 Presidency: Only death will make me quit race \u2013 Wike rubbishes consensus","datePublished":"2022-04-22T13:07:55+00:00","dateModified":"2022-04-22T14:21:12+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus"},"wordCount":254,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/postQueueImg_19-6262b9bf9f722.jpg","keywords":["2023 presidency","Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","Nigeria","Wike"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","Policy","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus","name":"2023 Presidency: Only death will make me quit race \u2013 Wike rubbishes consensus - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/postQueueImg_19-6262b9bf9f722.jpg","datePublished":"2022-04-22T13:07:55+00:00","dateModified":"2022-04-22T14:21:12+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has vowed not to step down for any consensus candidate of the party ahead of its presi ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/postQueueImg_19-6262b9bf9f722.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/postQueueImg_19-6262b9bf9f722.jpg","width":800,"height":600,"caption":"2023 Presidency: Only death will make me quit race \u2013 Wike rubbishes consensus"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-presidency-only-death-will-make-me-quit-race-wike-rubbishes-consensus#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"2023 Presidency: Only death will make me quit race \u2013 Wike rubbishes consensus"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}