The political rivalry between the former Vice President and 2023 presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the FCT minister, Nyesom Wike was renewed on Saturday when the latter threw barbs at the Atiku for his consistent political failures.

Reacting to Atiku’s early comment on his X handle on how the Rivers people had rejected Wike following the results of the last local government election, Wike said “We never contested the local government elections. Did we contest? Did we pick forms? I hear Atiku Abubakar say, ‘Oh, they have rejected me in Rivers State.’ Okay, assuming, though not conceding, that he has lost many times, Nigerians have also rejected him.

“If you say for an election we did not contest, never participated in, that it shows Nigerians have rejected us, fine. You that contested and failed woefully, Nigerians have rejected you, so pack up and go home,” he said.