A former aide of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno
Omokri, has said the reason why northerners are behind the presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, is a result of
the provocations from Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State.
Omokri, in a post on his social media handles, said the
manner in which Atiku responded to Wike’s provocation has been the major thing
that galvanised the North behind Atiku.
According to Omokri, Atiku has been able to hold his peace
instead of replying Wike, no matter the insult he threw at him.
He explained that Wike’s attacks on Atiku has made the
former Vice President more popular in the North, having been able to keep a
cool head in spite of the barrage of insults from Gov Wike.
Recall that Wike has been leading a team of five
aggrieved governors of the PDP, known as the G-5, against the presidential
candidate of their party.
The crisis started immediately after Wike lost the PDP
presidential primary election to Atiku.
The Rivers governor has since then requested the resignation
of the National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, for being a northerner
like Atiku.
Wike and the other four aggrieved PDP governors said it
would be unfair to the South that the presidential candidate of the party and
its national chairman are both from the North.
Since then, efforts to placate the governors to support
Atiku have been abortive, as they threatened to work for another presidential
candidate from the South, starting from January 2023.
It is being rumoured that Wike and his team are yet to
convince one another on who to support between Peter Obi of the Labour Party,
LP, and Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Recently, Wike shut down a campaign office of Atiku in
Rivers, saying it was set up in violation of his executive order.
Speaking, Omokri said: “One other thing that galvanised the
North behind Waziri Atiku Abubakar is the way he responded to Wike’s
provocations. No matter the insult Wike threw at him, Atiku held his peace and
never responded. If you know how popular it has made Waziri, you will thank
Wike!
“In their view, a man who can command such a presence and
cool head under such a continuous and one-sided barrage of insults is a man
with capacity to lead under pressure.”
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