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Wike and Fayose, The New PDP Kingmakers!
After 2015 elections, series of significant changes took place – there was (is) recession, which sent many millionaires under and produced new set of money bags. That’s what change is – no permanent champion but current champion.
Like the recession, the defeat suffered by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2015 elections also thrown up new set of kingmakers from what is left of the party. There are only two of them – they decide who gets what and who is schemed out as the case may be.
One has the resources and the other has gift of the gab– Nyesom Wike, Governor of Rivers State and Ayodele Fayose, Governor of Ekiti State, have worked and have assumed the position of kingmakers of the rejuvenated PDP.
If you are in doubt, ask Alimodu Sheriff. He joined PDP in 2014 and by some manipulations in 2016; he became the Chairman of National Working Committee of the party and at one time the acting National Chairman. No thanks to arms deal scam – those who could lay claim to the remains of the party were haunted by EFCC investigations.
Those who followed PDP would still recall how Wike and Fayose spearheaded the return of Sheriff and ultimately crowned him with that position. But they both superintended his removal when, according to them, his continuous stay as the national chairman of the party would jeopardise the party. “Ali must go,” because “his leadership was destabilising the party,” Wike said.
“I supported Senator Ali Modu Sheriff in good conscience. But when it became obvious that his continuous stay in office as the National Chairman will jeopardise the collective interest of the party, I had no option than to support his removal,” Fayose said after the 2016 national convention of the party held in Portharcourt.
They did the magic; expended all that was needed to see him out of the party and installed Ahmed Makarfi as the Chairman of the party’s National Caretaker Committee, the position Sheriff was made to vacate through court injunction.
That was indeed the beginning of their emergence as the two musketeers and the new PDP kingmakers but many within the party including Bode George, former Deputy National Chairman of the party underestimated their strength.
Both Fayose and Wike have a lot in common and they perfectly fit each other. While Fayose is the unofficial face of the opposition party since the build up to the 2015 elections and up till date, Wike on the other hand is the much needed engine room of the party especially that he is about the strongest governor the party can boast of at the moment- he provides the finances.
SECONDUS’ EMERGENCE: WIKE AND FAYOSE’S VICTORY
In politics, loyalty is a scarce commodity; no one is loyal to anyone or better put, there is no permanent loyalty. Politicians go to where their interests are protected. Therefore, it was mere display of political naivety that Bode George, Tunde Adeniran, Rashidi Ladoja and others from the South West could think that Fayose could possibly be on their side. No way, he was on the other side.
Fayose is always smarter- he knew South West could not and would not clinch the position, because the convention was already held before that Saturday. He and Wike, have decided who will be the party’s chairman.
While George and others, though without such financial muscle to make delegates do their bidding in a game defined by money, were banking on the zoning arrangement they claimed had ceded the national chairmanship of the party to the South West, Fayose and his partner had perfectly positioned Uche Secondus, who is from South South for the seat. Secondus had always wanted that position before now.
By a fiat sort of, Wike before the convention came out clear about where the pendulum was swinging. He said Secondus, a former acting chairman of the party, was the best candidate to lead the PDP in view of his experience and track record.
“I have analysed the scenario. I have analysed the delegates spread of each state. There is no way that Prince Uche Secondus will not coast to victory by over 90 per cent of delegates votes.
“I am talking because I am in the campaign team of Prince Uche Secondus and I am a delegate.
“Secondus has never said anything negative against any other candidate. He has remained focused on his campaign. Somebody who believes that he will win will not resort to writing petitions before the convention.” He was quoted as said.
And this is why Bode George was better and perhaps still bitter. Wike was quoted as saying that “National Chairmanship in the South-west will not change the fortunes of the PDP.”
According to him, the fortunes of the party did not improve in terms of votes in that zone, even when the President hailed from the South-west

By whose standards?

By whose standards?

Afonjas are being treated as second citizens like the IPODs

Proudly Niger Delta

PDP candidate will amazingly shock everyone

wickyyolo:
Afonjas are being treated as second citizens like the IPODs

Proudly Niger Delta

why are u happy. PDP is a failed party.

If u place ur glasses to right direction in the game PDP played in the just concluded convention, there is no any iota of doubt that the VP of PDP should b zoned to South West.Atiku and fayose or gbenga Daniel or any serving Pastor of the south west origin.Did u forget history. If u tambuwa me I will sarakify u strategy.

Pdp My Party

CharleyBright:
By whose standards?

By the power broker's mentioned above

[quote author=wickyyolo post=63255415]Afonjas are being treated as second citizens like the IPODs

Proudly Niger Delta[/quote



Don't be surprised to see....Atiku/fayose ticket in 2019

TrueSenator:
PDP candidate will amazingly shock everyone

You read my mind

vicadex07:
why are u happy. PDP is a failed party.

So is APC

wickyyolo:
So is APC

but APC is in power

vicadex07:
but APC is in power

And so what? Being in Power while hardship Is every where .

Guy, e be like say you don take tombo

Anyways for you information PDP is coming back 2019.

If these 2 are truly the kingmakers in PDP then PDP can forget 2019

krendo:
If these 2 are truly the kingmakers in PDP then PDP can forget 2019

Say's who? Seems you cannot see beyond your nose

Fayose is not a King maker.

A talkative but holds little weight.

don't understand why some yoruba people always always like living in delusion.

so na wike n' fayose be Godfathers for PDP now

olboy e no get wetin person no go read for nairaland..

TonyeBarcanista..abeg come follow me read oh..

then tomorrow if dey loose the VP again..like dey do for "shiamansip" you will hear dem wail..

we no wan PDP for southwest..
PdP is dead in southwest..
PdP is a regional party..

Okay..we've heard. Oya make na sell bubu n APC to the masses. Nop.. its PdP

very very unserious jokers.. no shame.

instead make MOD the hide this kain thread wey dey embarrassed yoruba nation.

they're wailing all over the cyper net.. thinking wailing will give them Vp in Pdp or fighting Igbo's will land dem a place in PDP.

2018..is not 2014..

you don't pet KArma.. is a real bitch..and always always ready to give you back in a 100 fold.


yoruba can't trick Nature..

what you sow you reap..
so they should be aware.. that other’s are seeing dia subtle media propaganda to coerced Pdp to field a yoruba VP.

we saw it..even before your propagandists start work.


you see.. you can easily predict dia kind of politics.

Finally they have written a rejoinder to www.nairaland.com/4228059/king-makers-political-clout-south to massage their ego.

South West can NEVER produce PDP's Vice President. You can take this to the bank.

I don't understand why some people are politically naïve. You want to be National Chairman, yet you produce almost all the candidates for Deputy National Chairman. It doesn't work that way.

bounty007:
don't understand why some yoruba people always always like living in delusion.

so na wike n' fayose be Godfathers for PDP now

olboy e no get wetin person no go read for nairaland..

TonyeBarcanista..abeg come follow me read oh..

then tomorrow if dey loose the VP again..like dey do for "shiamansip" you will hear dem wail..

we no wan PDP for southwest..
PdP is dead in southwest..
PdP is a regional party..

Okay..we've heard. Oya make na sell bubu n APC to the masses. Nop.. its PdP

very very unserious jokers.. no shame.

instead make MOD the hide this kain thread wey dey embarrassed yoruba nation.

they're wailing all over the cyper net.. thinking wailing will give them Vp in Pdp or fighting Igbo's will land dem a place in PDP.

2018..is not 2014..

you don't pet KArma.. is a real bitch..and always always ready to give you back in a 100 fold.


yoruba can't trick Nature..

what you sow you reap..
so they should be aware.. that other’s are seeing dia subtle media propaganda to coerced Pdp to field a yoruba VP.

we saw it..even before your propagandists start work.


you see.. you can easily predict dia kind of politics.

They shot themselves in the leg by speaking b4 time. Now its left for igbo media houses like Ait, sunnews etc to effectively discredit fayose by 2018

Just like some media hyped that APC will gv SS vp (either Amechi or Oshomole) to compensate the ss to vote Apc.