PDP Crisis: Gov Makinde Drags Atiku, Reveals 1 Secret of Wike

• Seyi Makinde, the governor of Oyo State, has mocked Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential flagbearer in the 2023 election at an event in Port Harcourt, Rivers State
• Makinde said someone referred to himself as a true unifier while Nyesom Wike, the former governor of Rivers State, is the true unifier
• The governor said this while noting that politicians from different political parties gathered together because of Wike but Atiku who referred to himself as a unifier cannot do that

Port Harcourt, Rivers - Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has fueled the unspoken rift that continued to exist in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with a subtle remark to mock Atiku Abubakar, the party's presidential candidate in the February 25 presidential election.

The governor, while speaking at a thanksgiving service organized for former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, in Port Harcourt, the state capital on Sunday, June 18, referred to the former vice president as the one who called himself a unifier but said Wike is the true unifier.

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He said:

"Someone called himself Mr. unifier, but from what I see in this room, the true unifier is Governor Nyesom Wike."

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Makinde made the remark while noting that the gathering of the event was full of politicians from different political parties. Meanwhile, someone who tagged himself as a unifier could not hold such an event, thus, the real unifier is Nyesom Wike.

Recall that during the February 25 presidential election campaigns, Atiku consistently referred to himself as a true unifier, of which, he refused to honour the yearnings of the southern bloc of the PDP who were demanding the chairmanship position of the party for equity and justice.

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Before making the demand, they have earlier argued that the presidential ticket of the party, citing the fact that former President Muhammadu Buhari was from northern Nigeria and power was not expected to shift to the north after the 2023 election.

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But Atiku, a northerner, was able to clinch the ticket after much politics during the primary, and the leadership positions of the party were subsequently dominated by the north.

The southern bloc, led by the G5, with Wike and Makinde at the front, demanded that the PDP leadership should be restructured and the south should hold the position, citing the constitution of the party that the presidential candidate and party chairman can't come from the same region.

However, the then-PDP national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, referred to the aggrieved five governors as "boys" who know nothing and they decided not to support Atiku during the election.

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Legit.ng earlier reported that the camp of Nyesom Wike, the former governor of Rivers State, in the PDP, has defeated Atiku Abubakar, the party's presidential candidate, in the House of Reps.

It was learned that Kingsley Chinda, a strong ally of Wike, was nominated as a consensus candidate of the PDP Reps caucus for the position of minority leader in the Lower Chamber.

The choice of Chimba did not go down well with PDP leaders in Atiku's camp as his preferred candidate, Oluwole Oke, reportedly stepped down from the race.

Source: Legit.ng