According to Mr. Daniel Bwala, a spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council, Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State and the leader of the G-5 PDP governors who are upset, was misleading his four fellow PDP governors about the presidential candidate they would all support.
Bwala said that Wike was actually backing APC presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu but was unable to announce it to the public because he had misled his colleagues into believing he was backing Mr. Peter Obi of the Labour Party.
The four governors are Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, and Seyi Makinde of Oyo State. The governors had threatened not to back Atiku Abubakar, the party’s presidential candidate, unless Iyorchia Ayu, the national chairman, resigned.
Bwala characterised Wike as insignificant in an interview, stating that he broke his commitment to name the G-5 and Integrity Group’s favoured candidate out of concern about being openly kicked out of the party. He said that openly endorsing a candidate from a different party would be considered anti-party behaviour against him.
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He stated: “He is dishonest and inconsequential. You recall that he promised to announce their preferred candidate in January. When a BBC correspondent reminded him of the pledge, he responded that January had not ended. Now that January is over, he said he never revealed to anyone the methodology of disclosure of their preferred candidate. He is now saying he has told his people who to vote for.
“He can’t announce his candidate because he knows the consequences. The party can expel him outright for gross misconduct and anti-party activities. He made them (his colleagues) believe that he was behind Peter Obi. So, he can’t openly come out now to declare support for the APC candidate because the other four governors do not want Tinubu.”
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