2023: Strong PDP Chieftain Reveals Atiku’s Final Position Against Wike, Loyalists’ Candidates

• Reactions have continued to trail the movement of Governor Nyesom Wike's men from Atiku Abubakar's campaign council
• Interestingly, this development has led to more crisis in the opposition PDP as major stakeholders have picked their stand a few months before the 2023 general elections
• Reacting, former PDP spokesman Chief Olisa Metuh said the action of Wike's men is disturbing and Atiku is really worried about it as he is left with no choice but to move against Wike's men

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is under pressure from some supporters to take a move against Governor Nyesom Wike's men after they pulled out of his campaign council.

Former party spokesman, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a media chat with reporters, said some associates of Atiku were piling pressure on him to pull support from candidates aligned to Wike and his loyalists who on Wednesday, September 21, pulled out from his campaign, Vanguard reported.

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Metuh's position revealed

Speaking against the background of the threats against Atiku by the Wike group, Metuh said:

“If you are actually working for Atiku to win the presidency you cannot be insisting on a chairman because the president when he is elected can always change a chairman whether he is acting or elected."

Wike camp has failed in their agitation, Metuh said

While insisting that the Wike camp has failed in articulating their agitation through the right channel, he affirmed:

“If you want the chairman not to continue, then engineer the party to ask him, engineer the National Executive Committee, engineer the National Caucus, engineer the leadership of the party to ask him, then he will resign. But when you are outside and issue press statements it is not the party that is talking, it is an individual or group of friends that are talking.”

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Atiku is under pressure to move against Wike's camp, Metuh shares details

Saying that Atiku was also under pressure to move against candidates in the Wike camp and those aligned to them, Metuh said:

“I am aware that there is a lot of pressure asking him to issue the same statement against those people but he has not. That is where we admire the patience, tolerance, the accommodating qualities of Atiku. Any other person would have taken a hard stance. He has not used any foul language. He has not taken any hard stance. He has been accommodating. They pushed him to London, he went to London. They will him this he will say, anything they say.”

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It stated the chances of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Atiku Abubakar have been significantly reduced by the internal crisis in the party.

His chances, the report further predicted, have been narrowed by the growing popularity of Peter Obi, the candidate of Labour Party (LP), in the South-East, which is traditionally the powerhouse of the PDP.

2023: How karma is hunting Atiku, Wike, Ayu, others in PDP

Many have tagged the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari as a total failure because of the persistent insecurity and rising inflation, which has made the pockets go dry and subject the bellies to hunger, but karma seemed to be on his side and his party ahead of the general election.

The insecurity and inflation have swept Buhari’s landmark achievements in infrastructure and agriculture under the rug, influencing the retired general’s comment that those who are supposed to talk about his achievements are not doing so.

The largest opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which is meant to seize the opportunity on the ground and hijack the power from the All Progressives Congress (APC), decided to play the tribal game and jeopardised the hope of southerners taking over from Buhari.

Source: Legit.ng