Wike stated this throughout his session with the Taraba delegates of the PDP on Thursday, April 21, 2022.
The governor vowed to make safety his primary priority if he will get the top job, including that no nation can attain growth in an insecure setting, Daily Trust reported.
He additionally reiterated name for the introduction of state police as the one panacea to successfully curb insecurity.
Wike argued that local intelligence is a key part of safety and such can only be achieved via state policing. He posits that each the state and federal police can coexist provided their jurisdictions are properly spelt out to keep away from a conflict of curiosity.
The governor stated, “The Federal Government, you can’t cease this insecurity for those who don’t have state police. You have to have state police, there is no two methods about it.
“Having a state police doesn’t imply you’ll not have a federal police. Everywhere in the federal system, even councils have their very own police so that you simply make use of individuals who know the setting.
“You can’t take a stranger to go to Mambila, it can take him years to understand that place. You can’t take a stranger and go to Donga or Chanchangi. So, you want individuals who know the setting so they’ll be capable to handle the place.
“If federal offences are dedicated, the federal police ought to handle them. If they’re state offences, the state police ought to deal with. So one key factor to cease this insecurity in Nigeria is to have state police.”
Other than tackling insecurity, Wike additionally promised that the PDP authorities under his watch will embark on constructing infrastructural initiatives and implement agricultural revolution to deliver the economic system out of the present doldrums.
He stated: “The one downside that our PDP authorities (under me if elected) should remedy is to deliver down the extent of insecurity on this nation otherwise there is no way the economic system can develop.
“When bandits hear my name they’ll run because I’ll take the struggle to them. I would be the Commander- in-Chief in action.
“I’ll be commanding in initiatives, in security, in agriculture and the economic system along with the armed forces. I’ll be commanding each aspects of life that may make Nigerians blissful. It’s because I’ve the capability to unravel the issues of Nigeria.”
Wike is likely one of the contenders for the PDP presidential ticket alongside others like the previous Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, former Senate President Bukola Saraki, governors of Bauchi and Sokoto states, Bala Mohammed and Aminu Tambuwal.
Others are former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim, Dele Momodu, Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom, former Governors of Ekiti and Anambra states, Ayodele Fayose and Peter Obi.
