‘G5 Won’t Announce Any Presidential Candidate’

‘G5 Won’t Announce Any Presidential Candidate’

Mr. Abdul-Azeez Adediran, the Lagos State PDP governorship candidate, said yesterday that presidential candidates hoping for the group’s endorsement would be disappointed, noting that the five governors, led by Rivers State’s Nyesom Wike, will not announce a candidate.

Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), and Okezie Ikpeazu are also members of the group (Abia).

The G-5 has been at odds with the PDP over the refusal of the party’s national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, to resign, following the emergence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the party’s presidential candidate.

Wike and his colleagues claim that Iyorchia’s continued tenure as the party’s national chairman violates the party’s power rotation principle and the federal character clause enshrined in the 1999 Constitution.

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Though Wike stated that the group would announce a presidential candidate to support this month, Adediran stated that doing so would be political suicide.

Adediran told The Guardian: “Announcing any other candidate apart from Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will amount to death penalty for them because they all have stakes in the next election. They are smart politicians. They know this, so they won’t make the mistake.”

To support his point, Adediran stated, “They are critical stakeholders in the next election.” Adediran expressed confidence that the PDP will win both the presidential and governorship elections in the state. Ugwuanyi and Ortom are running for Senate, while my leader, Seyi Makinde, is seeking re-election. Wike also wants his successor to be a PDP member. How do you expect them to explain to the majority of illiterate voters how to separate presidential ballot papers from those of the Senate and House of Representatives? On February 25, voters will be given three ballot papers. “How are you going to explain to voters why they should vote for different parties?”

“Let them continue to drag Nigerians to follow them till the election day. The current political scenario is different from what happened in 2015. All those who left the PDP in 2015 to form APC did not have stakes in PDP. They contested on the platform of the APC.”

When asked if he was making the assertion based on privileged information, he said: “I am speaking as a politician. See the smart politician, the Emilokan guy, he had stopped thinking of meeting with them and has faced his campaign because he knows it wouldn’t work. The one that does not know anything is the one still expecting that they will endorse him.

“And Atiku, who is a veteran in this trade, is calm and mobilising support everywhere, believing that they can’t dare it because they know the implication.

Yes, they have legitimate concerns, which the party has addressed and continues to address, and I understand them. However, no presidential candidate will be announced.”

Adediran, who expressed confidence that Lagosians would vote for him, said the warm reception he received in the 166 wards he visited during his campaign, as well as their determination to free the state from bondage, encouraged him to begin planning for his takeover of government on May 29.

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