Nigeria is in crisis, says Wike

The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has described Nigeria as a nation in crisis.

The governor spoke when a group of women visited the Government House in Port Harcourt on Thursday to ask him to run for a second term in office.

Wike said Nigerians, irrespective of gender, had the responsibility of bringing the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government’s reign to an end in 2019.

He noted that the nationwide breakdown of security, especially in the APC states, indicated the current administration to manage national resources.

“Nigeria is in crisis. Never in the history of this country have we had crisis of this magnitude. Rather than resolve developmental challenges, they continue to give excuses for their failure.

“We must come together in 2019 to protect our votes. Supporting the APC is like digging our graves. The country is already dead under their control. Every day, the country is moving from one problem to another,” the governor said.

He accused the opposition leaders in the state of taking pride in de-marketing and destroying the economy of the state for political reasons.

Wike announced a business development scheme worth N500m for Rivers women in 2018 and maintained that the fund would be domiciled in the state’s Microfinance Bank and managed by the Ministry of Women Affairs.

He said the empowerment scheme would assist the women to develop small scale businesses, even as he explained that the state’s Women Development Centre would be completed in 2018.

Earlier, the women had called on the governor to run for a second term in office and declared they would follow their endorsement with mobilisation of groups to vote for him in 2019.