Something is fundamentally wrong with Atiku, Says Wike

Wike advised Atiku to be more concerned about his former boss’s loss of confidence and the upcoming election.

The governor slammed those who accused him and Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom of sabotaging the PDP’s presidential ticket micro-zoning to the Southeast.

Wike said he had always been the advocate of zoning the presidency to the South unlike Atiku and others, who took steps to frustrate it.

He said: “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.

“I attended meetings of southern governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other parties from Delta to Lagos to Enugu states, where we agreed that presidency should come to the south.”

Wike recalled that while southern cross-party consultations were going on, there were people in the PDP who were bent on frustrating the zoning of the party’s presidential ticket to the South.

He said such persons could not turn around to cast the blame on him and Governor Ortom to hide their scheme thinking they could deceive the people.

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

“I keep on saying, they’ll 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?

“Nigerians know those who are opposed to the 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.

“So that when they have bought form, they could say, oh, there is no need of zoning, will you tell people to withdraw?”

Wike said their plot was haunting them because they were unfair to Nigerians.