According to reports, Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, and his crew have finalized preparations to infiltrate and overthrow Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, who is in charge of a faction within the PDP, has demanded for the resignation of the party’s national chairman.
Last Wednesday, Governors Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, Governor Wike of Niger State, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, and Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State withdrew from the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Council until their demands were met.
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Among the group’s other members are Senator Jonah Jang, Donald Duke, Ayo Fayose, Ibrahim Dankwambo, Mimiko, and Olabode George, a former PDP deputy national chairman.
Ayu, however, has been steadfast in his refusal to step down, and Atiku Abubakar has insisted that only legal means can be used to compel Ayu to do so.
According to a report, Atiku and several PDP officials have begun contacting Wike’s friends in an effort to persuade them to put their differences aside and support the PDP in 2023.
A source said: “There is general thinking in the party that Wike has nothing to lose and his so-called allies have something to lose, while some of them have nothing at stake.
“There is a thinking in the party that those who have something at stake can be cultivated.
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“And you know, this is a delicate thing, delicate in the sense that those individuals do not want to turn against Wike in a dramatic way. They know he can say things about them.”
Another source revealed that the PDP presidential candidate has activated a process to reach out to aggrieved leaders of the party.
The source said: “There are some internal processes that have been activated to ensure that those people (Wike’s allies) are properly aligned with the dictates of the party which is to ensure that the party wins in 2023, which in fairness to those people, they are not averse to except for Wike. We don’t even know what he’s up to and those who say they are with him (Wike) don’t know what he is up to.”
An ally of Atiku stated that the presidential candidate of the PDP and other party leaders would not do anything that is unconstitutional in a bid to remove the embattled Ayu.
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“Atiku and leaders of the PDP will never do anything unconstitutional because of Wike because Nigerians are watching. He will keep pushing and even after getting what he wants, he will ask for something else. We know his game,” he told Newsmen.
“There must be a stop to this and that is why we want to move on with his people.
“Those insisting that Ayu must resign are overlooking the constitution which states that his replacement must come from the North. They say it doesn’t matter. But the ripple effect would be too damning because you cannot then insist that the replacement from the North should resign, and then it will affect the national secretary, and down the line.”
Another source said that some of those with Wike was already looking at how they can avoid “becoming collateral victims of somebody else’s war.”
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