•To support Atiku’s campaign, provide logistics

By John Alechenu, Abuja


The Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, is under immense pressure from his loyalists following reports that he has yielded to the demand by Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, for the removal of the PDP National Chairman, Iyiochia Ayu.

It was gathered in Abuja, on Friday, that a number of agreements were arrived at after the face to face meeting between Atiku and Wike in London. Part of the agreement, it was learnt, was that Ayu should be given a dignified exit and accommodated in the new PDP government when it is formed.

The Wike Camp equally extracted a commitment from Atiku to be allowed to produce Ayu’s replacement and that the person should be from the South West Zone.

It is however unclear if Atiku yielded to the demand by Wike’s camp to serve for a single term to allow for power to shift to the south to assuage feeling of betrayal of southerners.

The Wike camp which outnumbered the Atiku camp two to one at the London meeting was also able to extract a commitment from the PDP candidate to produce the Senate President and some Principal officers of the National Assembly.

Members of the Wike camp will also be appointed into yet to be agreed key ministerial positions as well as the headship of Federal parastatals and agencies if they win the 2023 general elections.

In return, the Wike camp agreed to play a pivotal role in marketing the Atiku/ Okowa ticket and providing logistics for the general campaign.

A source familiar with the development who confided in Saturday Vanguard, said, “ It was also agreed that media hostilities should cease and this was largely responsible for the statement Atiku caused his Media Office to issue on Thursday.

“Atiku was left with little room to negotiate, he was outnumbered and the open solicitation by the candidates of the Labour Party and the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Peter Obi and Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu did not help matters.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/08/pdp-crisis-ayu-to-go-wikes-camp-to-produce-replacement-from-s-west/

Wike is indeed a strong man but nothing will ever make him work for Tinubu.

No matter what happens i just want to see either PDP or APC win so i can witness the wailings of the Obi supporters in 2023
I really cant wait for it

|It can't happen

SW got nothing to offer PDP. They're already OBIDIENT.

This is the likely possibility after HE Atiku realised that HE Wike is more valuable than Sen. Ayu.

Ayu has been thrown under the bus. Expect him to fight back as he may likely switch to Asiwaju Tinubu's camp.
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DEROX:
No matter what happens i just want to see either PDP or APC win so i can witness the wailings of the Obi supporters in 2023
I really cant wait for it

See painment +envy + jealous, but brace up, Obi go be our presido.

mii4u:

See painment +envy + jealous, but brace up, Obi go be our presido.

no wahala we shall see na pls dont deactivate account

DEROX:
no wahala we shall see na pls dont deactivate account

I can never deactivate my acct and pls don't too.

mii4u:

I can never deactivate my acct and pls don't too.

I wont i promise

DEROX:
I wont i promise

Good.

DEROX:
I wont i promise

Good

I don't think Atiku have any choice, He has to do exactly that to show he's fair. The Chairman has to come from the south since the presendential flag bearer is from the North.

Wicked wike

Nice development! But the SW ought to understand that the sophisticated politics of 2015 put Nigeria in the political quagmire of today.

Doesn't matter

Hmmmmm, Fayose loading...

I think Wike is playing a long game.

We should all watch carefully and see how things pan out.

However, 2 things are now glaring about Atiku:

1. He is not strategically proactive. He let others take the initiative and left himself exposed.

2. His ability to smell danger from afar is not well honed. Every sensible political watcher knew that the NBA conference was a waste of time (in political terms), as the NBA leadership was pro-Obi. Going there was a waste of his time and left little room for him to manoeuvre and counter the Tinubu-Wike meeting which was going on at the same time.

Good. Now replace AYU WITH A RETIRED MILITARY POLITICIAN.

It was learnt...

It was gathered...

Our source.....

And other nonsense way of lazy journalism...

Una don start this permutations and combinations again

ok

Hehehe.

Wike the beautiful bride.

All his shakara about to pay-off.

Wike the main man! Install a low budget Bisi Akande as PDP chairman, weaken them internally, give the Agbado and cassava crooner a sigh of relief, dissapoint them at the dying minute by being OBIdient!

You don't need a soothsayer to tell u Wene Wike is OBIdient!

Wike be giving dem hot hot

PDP already made the mistake. APC making theirs too but still claiming rights.

Everything will work out well for Peter Obi our incoming President. May God preserve him for us.

The right thing is for Ayu to go. He made lots of blunder, calling Tambuwal the Hero of the convention doesn't speak well of him as an unbiased umpire.

Also he earlier said he will step down if a Northerner emerges, why is he renegading?

Whatever suit them.

Obi remains the choice of the masses

DEROX:
No matter what happens i just want to see either PDP or APC win so i can witness the wailings of the Obi supporters in 2023
I really cant wait for it

It's easy to spot a Tinubu supporter
They are always crying and wailing over Peter Obi...
Your tears haven't started oo.. mind you Peter Obi and Atiku are very very close... Know that and cry more

To provide Logistics,so these Atiku and his cabals are jst after Wike and South funds.Politics is really for the wise.

dre11:
•To support Atiku’s campaign, provide logistics

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/08/pdp-crisis-ayu-to-go-wikes-camp-to-produce-replacement-from-s-west/

Is Wikes job description in PDP to remove PDP chairmen? it seems his solution to every problem is remove whoever he doesnt like. this is the second chairman he is fighting to unseat

The people of Benue state will be waiting for Ortom at the polls next year to give him the reward he deserves for the role he played in Ayu's dethronement, if it comes to fruition.

OK