Young people in the north who support Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State, over Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have cautioned Ulama in the north who are using their houses of worship to speak about the crisis to stop immediately or they will be exposed.
In a press conference held in Kano, the youths who go by the name “Northern Youths Up For Wike” said that if Islamic clerics and imams, particularly those from the North, are interested in politics, they should openly join a party but for the time being should stay out of the Wike-Atiku crises because it is not within their purview.
The youngsters reminded Governor Wike that his opposition to the North producing both the PDP chairman and its presidential candidate in 2023 was not intended to prevent a northerner from winning the presidency.
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Alhaji Abduljabbar Rufai made the claim on Thursday at a press conference held at the Grand Central Hotel in Kano. He hinted that the Wike camp is fighting injustice and unfair treatment done to the Southern part of the country by denying the region the national chairmanship position because the North has been given the presidential position.
According to him: “The national chairman of the party, Senator Iyochia Ayu has proven not to be trustworthy to Nigerians because he promised us, we the members of the PDP, to resign his position, should a northerner emerged as party flagbearer, but now he is making excuses.”
He said further: “The issue of the national chairman, has proven that Atiku lacks the ability to adequately assess internal issues and relationship management and these are skills that a leader must possess to tackle problems like the ASUU strike.”
He then declared: “On behalf of the entire team of Wike’s Voice up North, an initiative with the main objective of supporting and defending Wike against those that are trying to make PDP a regional party, [contrary to the] provisions of the PDP Constitution [which] was deliberately made the way it is, to promote equity and fairness in the party structure, we want to commend Gov Wike and show our tireless support for his political principles because he has earned our trust.
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He noted that Wike “is the strongest pillar in today’s PDP…Therefore this agitation is not about him, but for the benefit of the party in general.”
He pointed out that Wike has demonstrated his party devotion beyond any shadow of a doubt by remaining a member, unlike other party members who left in 2014.
Rufai then urged all parties involved to act swiftly by requesting Senator Ayu to honorably resign from his position as the party’s national chairman and make way for a southern candidate to take over.
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