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ABUJA: Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Nyesom Wike, has downplayed the chances of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in clinching the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP for the 2027 general election, saying it will simply not happen.


Speaking during a live media parley on Wednesday evening in Abuja, Wike said Atiku had severally presented his blueprint to Nigerians and he had been serially rejected.

Atiku who was the PDP Presidential Candidate in 2023 had recently said if he had won the election, he would have done things differently from President Bola Tinubu and Nigerians would not have been faced with the current level of hardship


Wike said; “Did he (Atiku) not present it (blueprint) before Nigerians? Did Nigerians choose him? He is lobbying for another chance. The chance will not be there. In which party? How can we use one man for how many years?

“Look at America, I am sure you all did not support Trump saying he is this, he is a racist, he is that, we are crying, Americans were thinking about something else, thinking for the good of their own country made a decision.

“You presented your blueprint in 2023, Nigerians heard you clear and said thank you, but it will not work, we will not support you. Criticisms do not mean opposition is working”

Bobloco:
Wike is a mad man and a bad sore loser. Ever since Atiku defeated him in the PDP presidential primaries, Wike has been whining like a baby.

Maxymilliano:
Atiku stand a better chance of getting the ticket and Wike knows ...

Saao:
Hmm A man serving under Apc, deciding on the fate of another person in pdp. Who is doing juju for wike that pdp can't kick him out of the party? Or is pdp so weak that apc will be controlling them? I tired for naija style of politics

Folaje:
PDP is just a shadow of itself

Maxymilliano:
Atiku stand a better chance of getting the ticket and Wike knows ...

2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury

Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.

One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.

Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.

https://www.thecable.ng/2023-pdp-and-politics-of-healing-wikes-self-inflicted-injury/amp

Bobloco:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/11/2027-atiku-has-no-chance-in-pdp-wike-declares/

Thiefobi1:
Then what will u call Pand-ora obi.

Whining toddler.

Saao:
Hmm A man serving under Apc, deciding on the fate of another person in pdp. Who is doing juju for wike that pdp can't kick him out of the party? Or is pdp so weak that apc will be controlling them? I tired for naija style of politics

Maxymilliano:
Atiku stand a better chance of getting the ticket and Wike knows ...

Thiefobi1:
Then what will u call Pand-ora obi.

Whining toddler.

gigabyte13:
Wike and Atiku
This two children adults dey see demselves for dream. Nothing anybody wan tell me