IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Governor Nyesom Wike will be in a meeting with four other Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the United Kingdom on Thursday.
Wike is unhappy that Atiku Abubakar picked Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State despite reportedly having an agreement to run with the Rivers State’s governor on a joint ticket.
The five aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party governors led by Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike will meet in London, United Kingdom, on Thursday, 13 October, 2022.
Recall that Wike, Governors Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) and Samuel Ortom (Benue) recently withdrew their membership of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, insisting on the removal of the National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu.
In September, Wike, Makinde and Ortom met in London and today’s meeting is expected to take certain decisions ahead of the 2023 poll.
It was learnt that Monday’s decision by the party and Atiku to flag off the campaign without Wike and his allies may have informed the latest meeting.
So far, efforts to reconcile Atiku and Wike’s allies have not been successful. The Board of Trustees of the party led by the acting Chairman, Adolphus Wabara, set up a reconciliation committee to intervene in the lingering crisis but have been unable to broker peace as expected.
Wike has vowed to remain in the party, promising however not to have anything to do with the presidential campaigns unless Ayu leaves.
This comes as the PDP has described the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as someone dazed by the resounding presentation of Atiku at the hugely successful flag-off of the presidential campaign in Uyo.
The party maintained that Tinubu has become so disoriented that he can no longer articulate or engage in any productive and focused political discourse.
“Since he procured the APC ticket, the APC candidate has not made any meaningful comment or contribution to serious national issues, instead he has been engaging in illogical, incoherent and fatuous utterances.” Inaugurating the council members at the party secretariat, the state PDP Chairman, Hassan Hyat, said it was expected that the committee members will work vigorously for the victory of the party’s presidential candidate.