Atiku's Controversial Remark: What Will Happen if PDP Fails to Apologise to Nigerians, Wike Speaks UP

• Governor Nyesom Wike on Monday, October 17, reacted to Atiku Abubakar's recent remarks which have been described as divisive
• Hours after his return from Madrid, Spain, the Rivers governor called on the PDP to apologise on Atiku's behalf
• Wike said if it is true that the PDP's presidential candidate said northerners need only one of their own to become president, then it justifies his call for equity in the party

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has to apologise to Nigerians over some alleged divisive remarks made by Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate.

This was the advice of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state on Monday, October 17, The Nation reports.

Although Wike expressed a level of doubt that Atiku actually said the north needs a northerner to emerge as president in 2023, he noted that such a view and disposition goes to justify his fight for equity, justice, and fairness in the PDP.

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He, therefore, called on the opposition party to urgently apologise to Nigerians, or else citizens would begin to see the party as one devoid of justice and equity.

What Atiku said in the north

During a recent campaign rally in the north, Atiku had said:

“I know the whole of this country. I have built bridges across this country. I think what the average northerner needs is somebody who is from the north, who also understands the other parts of Nigeria, and who has been able to build bridges across the rest of the country.

“This is what the northerner needs. He (the northerner) doesn’t need a Yoruba candidate or an Igbo candidate. This is what the northerner needs. I stand before you as a pan-Nigerian of northern origin.”

Wike’s group pulls out of Atiku's campaign

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Wike's team in the PDP pulled out of the campaign council of the party’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar.

Rising from their stormy meeting in Port Harcourt early morning on Wednesday, September 21, members of the team vowed not to partake in Atiku’s campaign activities pending the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu.

The members of the party sympathetic to Wike insisted that there would be no deal with Atiku until Ayu vacated his office to allow an acting Chairman from the South to lead the campaign of Atiku.

Source: Legit.ng