Days ago, the governor of Rivers state Nyeson Wike held a national press conference on the crisis he is visiting on his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He said not much that was new. But he re-emphasised that his grouse was that the South has been shortchanged by the PDP allowing a northerner to emerge as its presidential flag-bearer. In order words, Wike presented himself as speaking for and defending the South whereas he was the person who blocked the PDP presidential ticket from coming to the South…
