PDP Crisis: Big Trouble for Wike as Atiku Finally Reveals What Will Happen to G-5 Govs if They Support Tinubu

PDP Crisis: Big Trouble for Wike as Atiku Finally Reveals What Will Happen to G-5 Govs if They Support Tinubu

  • The fate of the G-5 governors headed by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has been determined by the PDP
  • This is as the spokesperson of Atiku Abubakar's campaign organisation have revealed that no one will pay attention to the group the moment they declare support for Bola Tinubu, APC flagbearer
  • Meanwhile, Wike on Wednesday revealed the strategy that will determine the 2023 election winner

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The spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organisation, Dr. Daniel Bwala has said the electorate won’t listen to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) G-5 governors if they declare support for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general elections.

Governors Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Samuel Ortom (Benue) and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu states and some political heavyweights from the South had vowed not to support the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over the refusal of the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, to resign after Atiku emerged as the presidential candidate of the party.

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What will happen to Wike and his men if they support Tinubu has been revealed. Photo credit: Atiku Abubakar, Gov Nyesom Ezenwo Wike - CON
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Tinubu's meeting with Wike's camp

They were alleged to have met with Tinubu in London last month. However, the outcome of the meeting remains unknown even though Wike promised to reveal the candidate they are backing this month.

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What will happen to Wike, others if they support Tinubu, Bwala explains

Speaking with Daily Independent, Bwala who expressed confidence that Atiku will win the election said given the negative things the governors have said about the APC in the past, nobody will listen to them if they ask the people to vote for Tinubu and his party in the presidential election.

He said,

“Look at it from the point of view of Atiku and the PDP. Atiku maintained a national political party. The movement for PDP is carried out by mostly people from the South, which consists of the Yoruba people, Igbo people, South-South and then, the North.

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“Only very few northerners are driving the Atiku campaign because it is a national agenda. PDP is a party that has a national spread. It is a party that produced a Yoruba president, Fulani president and South-South president.
“APC since its emergence has only produced a Fulani man. They accused him of empowering CPC members and now Asiwaju now wants to come and empower his ACN people. So, the APC is a party that is shared by just two people, Buhari and Asiwaju. The rest of the party members are nowhere to be found. So, we are not on the same level. Nobody will look at the APC and vote for them.
“One of the challenges that they have right now is that if they go supporting Tinubu, is it not the APC that Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike said was cancer they will be supporting? Remember Wike said PDP has headaches and APC has cancer.”

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2023 election: More drama for PDP as spokesperson dumps party

With less than 45 days to the 2023 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Gombe state chapter has been hit with a major setback following the resignation of its spokesperson, Murtala Usman Dukku.

As reported by the Nigerian Tribune, Dukku upon resignation from PDP, joined the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) camp on Wednesday, January 12.

However, prior to his registration, Legit.ng gathered Dukku had been issued a suspension by the PDP for allegedly working against the party.

PDP Crisis: Wike finally reveals strategy that will determine 2023 election winner

Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers state, has disclosed that voting revolution would be one of the strategies the people of the state will deploy in the forthcoming election to defeat opponents in the state.

Wike explained that the voting revolution would ensure that the consolidation team, which would be headed by the presidential candidate of the PDP, Siminialaye Fubara, was elected.

The governor said this at the flag-off of the Obodhi-Ozochi road/bridge construction in the Ahoada west local government area of the state on Wednesday, January 11.

Source: Legit.ng

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