With a few days to the February 25 presidential election,
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has ruled out any last-minute deal or
truce between the G5 and the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
Atiku Abubakar.
The governor also said he is not ready to sit with any
member of Atiku’s camp to broker peace between the G5 or the Integrity Group
and the national leadership of the party led by Iyorchia Ayu.
Wike, in a media chat on Thursday morning, also said he owes
nobody an apology to have hosted the presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu in Port Harcourt after the latter’s
rally in the state on Wednesday.
Asked about the possibility of a last-minute deal with Atiku, Wike said, “No, we can’t do that; it’s over! We have said it and there is nothing anybody can do about it now. They believe they can win the election. I am not ready to sit down with anybody again.”
Wike, a member of the G5, has not been on talking terms with
Atiku since the party’s presidential primary last May.
The G5 is made up of five aggrieved governors of the PDP in
southern Nigeria including Wike, Samuel Ortom (Benue), Seyi Makinde (Oyo),
Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu).
The five governor have been consistent in their demand that
Ayu step down as PDP national chairman as a precondition for them to support
the 2023 presidential ambition of Atiku.
The G5 has been quiet of late but Wike said the group is not
dead. According to him, the group has its own strategies and “not all of us
will do the talking. That others are quiet does not mean we are not together”.
“We know what all of us have agreed,” the governor noted but
did not disclose which of the other 17 presidential candidates the group would
support in next week’s election.
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