How Atiku, Others Frustrated PDP’s Zoning Of Presidential Ticket To South – Wike

How Atiku, Others Frustrated PDP’s Zoning Of Presidential Ticket To South – Wike

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike yesterday hit back at those accusing him and Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom of sabotaging the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential ticket’s micro-zoning to the southeast.

Wike stated that he has always believed in and supported efforts to ensure that the presidency is zoned to the south. He spoke at Itu Bridge Head, the starting point of the Akpabu-Odido Road in Emohua Local Council.

According to him, “I was one of those who led the campaign that the party’s chairmanship should go to the north because I believed the presidency should go to the south.

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“I attended meetings of southern governors of the APC, PDP and other parties from Delta to Lagos to Enugu states, where we agreed that the presidency should come to the south.”

Wike insisted that while southern cross-party consultations were taking place, there were people in the PDP determined to prevent the party’s presidential ticket from being zoned to the south.

Such people, he said, could no longer turn around and blame him and Ortom in order to conceal their scheme.

“I woke up this morning and read where they said, ‘How Wike and Ortom frustrated PDP’s micro-zoning of presidential ticket to southeast’. That was what the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku, said.

“I keep saying they will be contradicting themselves, telling lies up and down, thinking that Nigerians don’t know. How can they say that I influenced Ortom, told him to allow and throw the ticket open?” Wike asked.

He said further: “Nigerians know those who are opposed to zoning of the party’s chairmanship first. And when the zoning committee was set up, this time, Atiku had gone to buy form, to frustrate the recommendation of the zoning committee.”

The Rivers State governor urged the PDP presidential candidate to keep him out of the party’s problems. According to him, a bad product is always difficult to sell; otherwise, having worked with Atiku, Obasanjo would have recommended him to Nigerians.

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