Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State had his campaign posters removed off the campaign buses only hours after the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential primary election.
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was announced as the PDP presidential contender for the 2023 general elections on Saturday, according to Anaedoonline.ng.
In Saturday’s primary election at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja, Atiku received 371 votes to defeat Wike, who received 237 votes to finish second.
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In a viral video, however, posters of the Rivers governor were seen being removed off buses hours after he lost the election.
Meanwhile, In a related story, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, the main Igbo socio-political organization, has condemned the PDP presidential primaries, which produced former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the party’s presidential candidate for 2023, as crooked and irregular.
Ohanaeze, in a statement sent to the media on Sunday morning through its Secretary-General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, reacted to Atiku’s win by saying that the PDP presidential candidate will never become Nigeria’s president.
Ohanaeze rejected Atiku’s nomination, claiming that his election as the PDP’s candidate was the result of a scheme by disloyal Northerners to destabilize the country’s southern region.
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Isiguzoro stressed in the statement that the Igbo would rise up against Atiku, adding that his presidential campaign would be rejected in the South-East.
According to him, the nation’s main opposition party had been reduced to a Northern party.
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