The Presidential candidate of Nigeria’s main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has opened up why he visited Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State after the party’s primary election.
Africa Today News, New York reports that on Monday, Atiku paid Wike a visit in his Abuja residence for a crucial fence-mending meeting.
However, the former Vice President pointed out that his visit to Wike was to ensure that every stakeholder was brought on board to boost the party’s chances of winning the 2023 presidential election.
He wrote: ‘In continuation of my commitment to bring everyone on board in ensuring that the PDP stands as one united party, earlier today, I visited His Excellency Gov Nyseom (sic) Wike at his Abuja residence. This is a continuous process.’
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Atiku had defeated Wike and other PDP presidential aspirants during the party’s primary election on Saturday.
The Waziri of Adamawa gathered votes of 371 delegates while Wike polled 237 votes after the Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, stepped down for him.
Meanwhile, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has declared that his defeat to Atiku Abubakar in the presidential primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was the will of God.
Wike revealed that he almost scuttled the presidential primary after Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State was allowed by the organisers to return to the podium to announce his withdrawal from the race.
Wike made this claim while speaking on Monday at a reception in his honour at the Government House in Port Harcourt following his return to the state after primary in Abuja.
‘I have never seen how people can violate procedures and guidelines. Somebody has spoken, it is at that point he was speaking that he would have said I am withdrawing. You don’t call him back,’ Wike said. ‘I just said, ‘Look, this our party must not be destroyed.’
‘It is God’s will, let us not bother ourselves so much,’ Wike added.
He went on to accuse governors of the southern region of betrayal.