ENOUGH NOISE ABOUT THE G5, THEY ARE IRRELEVANT AND CANNOT TAKE CREDIT FOR PDP'S PERCEIVED LOSS IN THE PRESIDENTIAL POLL.

I get really annoyed and frustrated when media channels accord recognition to the G5 and try to give them credit for the PDP's loss in the last presidential poll.

What G5? A group of jesters and failures who could not deliver their own elections.

I'm saying this for the umpteenth time: the so-called G5 were in no way responsible for the loss of the PDP and Atiku Abubakar.

Even if our candidate, Atiku Abubakar had accepted their condition and reintegrated them into the party, PDP would still go ahead to lose the election in a more terrible way that going to court would have been impossible.

Rumors and divisive propaganda that it was the South East's turn to produce Nigeria's president, as well as the Obidients' endorsement of it, were the PDP's biggest political difficulties and not some drunk silly non-existent G5.

The APC and others painted the PDP as anti-Igbo, and our people fell for their deception and propaganda. Every attempt from us to educate our people fell on deaf ears; rather, they saw every voice of reason as a saboteur.

The claims that a Fulani was handing over to another Fulani became the headline of the political argument in the Southeast, not the merits of the Atiku-Okowa candidacy or the nuisance of Wike and his group.

In the end, the Southeast, which has been a major block of the PDP, abandoned her due to anachronistic tales and deliberate mischief by those who want the region to remain in political servitude.

The alliance of a section of the North and the South West was intact going into the poll; hence, the only alliance capable of disrupting any other existing alliance was that of the Southeast, South-South, and the remaining section of the North; but the APC sustained their claims of power returning to the South to their selfish advantage, which incited the Southeast a lot to give total support to Peter Obi on the premise of being a Southeasterner and most competent, mere fairy-tales.

Politics all over the world does not kowtow to verbal competence but to strategic competence, which the APC championed through the incitement of the Southeast. Power must return to the South so as to keep the region fixated on their own candidate while systematically denying the PDP the support of the region which would make her vulnerable.

The eventual mass support for an Igbo candidate denied the PDP the chance to clinch the presidency, not any inconsequential G5.

The presidential election was first lost to propaganda and sentiments before heading to the polls. We lost to the APC/Labour Party propaganda that a Fulani Muslim handing over to another Fulani Muslim would be a disrespect to our diversity.

The reconciliation of Atiku Abubakar and the G5 would have resulted in a more heinous defeat since they were so powerless and handicapped that only Seyi Makinde, who played smart politics throughout and even offered the PDP the requisite 25%, was spared while the others all fell into political purgatory.

It will be fairer to blame the loss of the PDP on our ethnic and religious bias than to accord such blame to such compound jesters and terrible failures who, on their own, lost their polling booths to the monstrous propaganda as championed by the desperate APC party and their accomplices in the Labour Party.

Whether Iyorchia Ayu had stepped down before the poll as according to the conditions given by the clowning five (5) Governors to support Atiku Abubakar, PDP would still lose elections in their various states because they did not perform well enough to have influenced votes for the party against the sweeping sentiment of the Southern/Southeast Presidency.

Enough with the irrelevant and insignificant G5, please. Let's face facts. Overall, the PDP and Atiku Abubakar ran a detailed campaign and won the hearts of many Nigerians, resulting in the PDP and Atiku Abubakar finishing second as announced by INEC, despite the irregularities that characterized the 2023 Presidential elections. I have not given up hope on the Nigerian judiciary, as they would carefully look into the issues raised by the PDP and accord justice in accordance with our laws.

Uloka Chukwubuike
Deputy Director Media and Publicity, Atiku-Okowa campaign Anambra State.



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I didn't read the epistle though, but, PDP made serious mistake in not picking Obi in the first instance. Daring 5 governors in your strong areas and some others that share their sentiments is foolhardiness.

What southerners are fighting APC not only for none performance but same faith ticket. PDP also are fighting northern dominance among officials.

This is the reason for a third force led by Obi.
I pray nigeria will eventually have a new order of political breakthrough.