Nyesom Wike on Saturday hit again at former vp Atiku Abubakar, labelling the Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP) presidential flagbearer within the 2023 election as a serial loser.
Atiku had taken a swipe at Wike – the Minister of the FCT and a former governor of Rivers State – over the native authorities elections within the state.
The Motion Peoples Social gathering (APP) gained 22 out of the 23 native authorities chairmanship posts within the train within the PDP-led Rivers, a transfer Atiku mentioned is a mirrored image of Wike’s rejection by the individuals. However weeks after, the minister mentioned having contested the presidential election in 2019 and 2023 because the PDP candidate and misplaced, Atiku has been rejected by Nigerians.
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“We by no means contested native authorities elections. Did we contest [Rivers LG election]? Did we decide kind? I hear Atiku Abubakar say, ‘Oh they’ve rejected me in Rivers State. Okay, assuming although not conceding, he had misplaced so many instances, Nigerians have additionally rejected him,” Wike mentioned in Port Harcourt at a luncheon he organised in honour of members of the Rivers State Meeting loyal to him.
“Should you say for an election we didn’t contest; by no means participated that exhibits Nigerians have rejected us, it’s okay. You that contested and failed woefully, Nigerians have rejected you, due to this fact pack and go residence.”
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How Atiku, Wike Fued Began
Wike, a chieftain of the PDP serving as a minister beneath the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), fell out with Atiku within the lead-up to the 2023 election.
Atiku had clinched the PDP ticket for the train after beating Wike and different aspirants. Since then, their relationship turned bitter. The then-Rivers State governor faulted the ex-VP’s emergence because the occasion’s flagbearer, arguing that it was the flip of southern Nigeria to provide a president (Atiku is from the north).
That pushed Wike and a few of his males within the “G-5” which loved membership of 5 then-governors. They labored in opposition to Atiku with the PDP shedding Rivers, considered one of its strongholds to the APC within the presidential election.
Tinubu who flew the APC’s flag within the presidential ballot thereafter appointed Wike as a minister. Whereas there have been calls to droop him from the PDP, the previous Rivers State governor maintained that his motion was prompted by a need for fairness and justice – returning the presidency to southern Nigeria the place he and Tinubu hail from.
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