Paul Ibe, the spokesperson of the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has disclosed that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, was instrumental in the exit of Peter Obi from the party.
Ibe said Atiku wanted the PDP to zone the 2023 presidential
ticket to the Southeast but Wike worked against it.
Obi was the vice presidential candidate of the PDP in the
2019 presidential election but dumped the party for the Labour Party, LP, ahead
of the 2023 presidential election.
He later became a force in the last general election,
securing over six million votes.
Since the PDP and LP lost to the All Progressives Congress,
APC, in the 2023 election, the leading opposition party has yet to resolve its
internal crisis.
However, Ibe said Atiku was ready to zone the PDP
presidential ticket to the Southeast.
In an interview on Seun Okinbaloye’s Mic On podcast, Ibe
said Wike frustrated the move to zone PDP’s ticket to the Southeast.
He said: “Atiku did not force Peter Obi out of the party,
Wike was instrumental in the exit of Obi because Wike had promoted the zoning
of the presidency to the south.
“Atiku Abubakar had said that he was prepared to get himself
off the ticket if the party zoned the ticket to the Southeast.
“Wike frustrated that effort because he believed that if it
was zoned to the south, not the southeast, he would be in the best position to
be able to get the ticket.”
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Wike is one evil that Tinubu will encounter in the days to come. He is busy causing problems in Rivers state. Foolish loyalists are resigning their positions while he is holding tight to his own in FCT. He still has not moved to APC officially.
ReplyDeleteTinubu is not his mate and he knows that
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