Amid the ongoing crisis in the opposition, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) the Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has once again travelled out to Europe after a media chat where he bared his mind on the crisis rocking the party.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that while speaking during the media chat, Wike had touched on contentious issues such as the alleged senatorial slot offer from Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; what former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar allegedly promised him in London; why he wanted Senator Iyioricha Ayu to step down as PDP chairman, among others.
Meanwhile, aspokesman of the Atiku Campaign Organisation, Mr. Daniel Bwala has asserted that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, should accept the bulk of the blame for frustrating the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s efforts to micro-zone its presidential ticket to the South-East.
Bwala made this known while speaking in an interview on a Channels Television Political Programme, which was monitored by Africa Today News, New York.
Bwala said, ‘The whole gamut of power zoning here or there started with Governor Wike. He virtually had everything he wanted. He brought this chairman (Ayu). When a discussion was being done in the party that power should be zoned, I recall very well, Atiku was inclined that it should be zoned to either South-East or North-East – these are the two geo-political zones that have not benefited.
‘Then, he (Wike) said if it was ever zoned to the South-East, he was not going to run. The movement then was that it should be micro-zoned to the South-East – among stakeholders from the region. He (Wike) frustrated it because he was interested.’
According to Bwala, this move led to the departure of the Labour Party, LP, Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, from the main opposition party.