Don Pedro Obaseki, a
media consultant to Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), says it will be “political suicide” if the G5 governors
endorse any candidate outside the PDP.
Obaseki spoke on Friday during an interview with Channels
Television.
The media consultant is also the director of research,
strategy, and documentation of the PDP presidential campaign council.
BACKGROUND
G5 is the group within PDP, which consist of five governors
— Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Okezie
Ikpeazu (Abia), and Samuel Ortom (Benue).
The PDP governors had insisted that they would not support
the party’s presidential candidate if Iyorchia Ayu, the party’s national
chairman, does not step down from his position.
Over the past days, there have been reports that the five
governors met in London to discuss plans to endorse Tinubu, flagbearer of the
All Progressives Congress (APC).
‘G5 GOVERNORS ARE
OVERRATED’
Speaking during the interview, Obaseki said it would amount
to “political suicide” for the five governors to endorse any candidate aside
from Abubakar.
“I truly believe that it would be foolhardy for any of them
to endorse any other candidate other than Atiku Abubakar for the president of
Nigeria,” he said.
“There are APC propagandists who are all over the place
trying to distort the polity. I’m happy to hear him (referring to Wike) say
nothing like that has happened.
“I have always told
everybody that it is going to be political suicide, political hara-kiri for any
of the five of them, particularly four of them who are going to run for elections,
to declare themselves partyless, because once you openly endorse another party,
you are invariably carrying out anti-party activities; it is only going to be
met by expulsion.
“You cannot run for elections in Nigeria, except on the
platform of a political party.
“My problem is that I don’t feel comfortable for Nyesom Wike
to continue to play God. No man is God. No man can be God.
“It won’t hurt Atiku Abubakar. It does not distort the
overriding goal. All the five of them in this present trajectory are overrated
based on voting patterns.”
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