Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate is under pressure from some supporters to pull the rug out from under the feet of allies of loyalists of Nyesom Wike running election but is strongly resisting the move.

Former party spokesman, Chief Olisa Metuh in an exclusive interview told GWG that some associates of Atiku were piling pressure on him to pull support from candidates aligned to Wike and his loyalists who on Wednesday pulled out from his Presidential Campaign Council.

Sources say that Seyi Makinde, the governor of Oyo State is particularly at risk of such a threat. Governors Okeize Ikpeazu of Abia State and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State who had been alligned to the Wike tendency, it was gathered, may have pulled back on account of strong pressures they are having from the Peter Obi phenomenon sweeping through the Southeast.

Ikepazu is the PDP candidate for Abia South Senatorial District and is also said to be even more at risk with the surging popularity of Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe who is flying the ticket of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA for the election.

Speaking against the background of the threats against Atiku by the Wike group, Metuh unarguably the longest serving NEC cum NWC member in the history of the PDP, said:

“If you are actually working for Atiku to win the presidency you cannot be insisting on a chairman because the president when he is elected can always change a chairman whether he is acting or elected, he has enough influence to change him. But if you are actively working for him to fail, you are wishing him not to win or you don’t believe that he will win, then we can understand why you are fighting for the issue.

While insisting that the Wike camp has failed in articulating their agitation through the right channel, he said:

“If you want the chairman not to continue, then engineer the party to ask him, engineer the National Executive Committee, engineer the National Caucus, engineer the leadership of the party to ask him, then he will resign. But when you are outside and issue press statements it is not the party that is talking, it is an individual or group of friends that are talking.”

Saying that Atiku was also under pressure to move against candidates in the Wike camp and those aligned to them, Metuh said:

“Now supposing the candidate of the party buckles to pressure to give directive against some people running in the election aligned to those who say they are withdrawing from his campaign council and ask his people to withdraw from their own campaigns? Won’t it be chaos?

“I am aware that there is a lot of pressure asking him to issue the same statement against those people but he has not. That is where we admire the patience, tolerance, the accommodating qualities of Atiku. Any other person would have taken a hard stance. He has not used any foul language. He has not taken any hard stance. He has been accommodating. They pushed him to London, he went to London. They will him this he will say, anything they say…”

Continuing on the pressure on Atiku to move against the Wike camp, Metuh said:

“People will come to him, let us fight these men he will say no. It is obvious that Nigeria needs such a father figure, a tolerant person. In the midst of insults, in the midst of provocations, indeed undue provocations because things that can be discussed inside the house are being thrown about and being marketed.”

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Nice one.
You people should continue the disunifying .
The beginning of the end

Chineke, tinyere ha ogba-aghara.
Atiku Abubakar is merely harvesting what he planted in pdp in 2014.
As for apc, a good percentage of their Christian leaders of northern extraction are already revolting and working against the Muslim/Muslim ticket.

Chineke, Tinyere ha ogba-aghara!

Pdp is dead,only a blind man would not see that apc have won bookmark this

Koralords:
Pdp is dead,only a blind man would not see that apc have won bookmark this

so people will leave PDP to go and vote for your blood sucking party called APC. Never

APC the party of killing killing, PDP should try and put their house in order.

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Atiku Ejorr


Try Dubai presidential election

Koralords:
Pdp is dead,only a blind man would not see that apc have won bookmark this

Politics is a complicated game. The crisis might work in favor of Atiku because the north simply sees Wike camp as fighting against the interest of the north.
Hence some APC Northern Governors and stakeholders will secretly work for Atiku to spite on Wike. The votes that they will deliver to Atiku in the north will be more than the votes that Wike camp will take away from Atiku. Hence the PDP crisis will end up affecting Tinubu more than Atiku.
This is why Atiku is very calm.

MikeofAfrica:


Politics is a complicated game. The crisis might work in favor of Atiku because the north simply sees Wike camp as fighting against the interest of the north.
Hence some APC Northern Governors and stakeholders will secretly work for Atiku to spite on Wike. The votes that they will deliver to Atiku in the north will be more than the votes that Wike camp will take away from Atiku. Hence the PDP crisis will end up affecting Tinubu more than Atiku.
This is why Atiku is very calm.

I like your point but obi will also be taking bulk votes from south east and south south that should have gone to pdp ,that's why am saying apc would win

This is where you find Igbo people... Where money is promised
No principle
Wabara too is confused

MikeofAfrica:


Politics is a complicated game. The crisis might work in favor of Atiku because the north simply sees Wike camp as fighting against the interest of the north.
Hence some APC Northern Governors and stakeholders will secretly work for Atiku to spite on Wike. The votes that they will deliver to Atiku in the north will be more than the votes that Wike camp will take away from Atiku. Hence the PDP crisis will end up affecting Tinubu more than Atiku.
This is why Atiku is very calm.

Sense full your head!

Sence overdose by Wike ft Atiku

Koralords:

I like your point but obi will also be taking bulk votes from south east and south south that should have gone to pdp ,that's why am saying apc would win

I agree with you that Obi will take bulk of votes from Atiku in SS/ SE. However even if Wike and his camp had supported Atiku, Obi will still take these votes. Hence Atiku is not lossing much in SS/ SE with Wike decision.
However he now stand to gain in the north which is APC stronghold. If northern leaders in APC and PDP decides to work together and protect the interest of the north like they did in 2015, then Wike will have indirectly given victory to Atiku.

Benbellamor:
This is where you find Igbo people... Where money is promised
No principle
Wabara too is confused

Stupid talk !!!

Oluwolex2000:
Speaking against the background of the threats against Atiku by the Wike group, Metuh unarguably the longest serving NEC cum NWC member in the history of the PDP, said:

“If you are actually working for Atiku to win the presidency you cannot be insisting on a chairman because the president when he is elected can always change a chairman whether he is acting or elected, he has enough influence to change him. But if you are actively working for him to fail, you are wishing him not to win or you don’t believe that he will win, then we can understand why you are fighting for the issue.

While insisting that the Wike camp has failed in articulating their agitation through the right channel, he said:

“If you want the chairman not to continue, then engineer the party to ask him, engineer the National Executive Committee, engineer the National Caucus, engineer the leadership of the party to ask him, then he will resign. But when you are outside and issue press statements it is not the party that is talking, it is an individual or group of friends that are talking.”

It is what I've been saying. Wike is a butterfly who thinks himself a bee. A housefly who thinks himself a wasp
If he has as much clout or teeth as he thinks, he should be able to secure the removal of the chairman without so much noise and public grandstanding. Now he's going about using money to activate some old PDP hands in the belief that such people speaking out on his side will make any momentum towards him. Story. If he likes he should go and bring Solomon Lar back from the dead to speak on his behalf. What he doesn't have, he doesn't have. He should eat the humble pie, learn his lessons and move on instead of this fifth columnist role he's playing. There's no way he will come out smelling like rose at the end while the likes of Bode George and Jang will simply withdraw back into their cocoon

Benbellamor:
This is where you find Igbo people... Where money is promised
No principle
Wabara too is confused

And you think same thing is not what Wike is using to sway Bode George and Jonah Jang? Pls

What sort of support is he going to pull from those candidates.
Atiku believes that the North will overwhelmingly vote him.
But like I said, he shouldn't be over confident. Shettima may want to be president too.

Wahala people

How much of Rivers State's wealth would be preserved if this happens? At least it will be enough to build two general hospitals.

Koralords:

I like your point but obi will also be taking bulk votes from south east and south south that should have gone to pdp ,that's why am saying apc would win

How does that make sense? Obi is taking bulk SS and SE, Atiku is taking bulk North. How does that make APC to win?

Jostoman:
so people will leave PDP to go and vote for your blood sucking party called APC. Never

No mind them jare....
PDP WILL CROSS ALL ODDS & WIN THE 2023 ELECTION.
Apcshit they happy, labour party they happy but e go do dem like India film when u hear gbusheeeeeeeeè u go think say d blow really meet the person but na lie