Wike Reacts To Atiku’s Criticism Of ‘Lopsided Appointments’

Wike Reacts To Atiku’s Criticism Of ‘Lopsided Appointments’

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike slammed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar on Thursday for criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari’s “lopsided appointments.”

Wike, who chastised the former Vice President for waiting seven years for his latest realization, said Nigerians are not easily duped.

The Rivers governor spoke in Port Harcourt, the state capital, when he hosted the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, at the Nkpolu-Oroworokwo Flyover inauguration. On Wednesday. Atiku had declared that he would form a government of national unity, claiming that 17 heads of security agencies are from the north. He promised to unite Nigeria by ensuring equity and fairness in government appointments and to reflect the federal character system.

Wike, on the other hand, chastised Adamawa-born Atiku’s silence, saying that Nigerians aren’t easily duped.

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“Some people now are criticising Buhari for appointing all the service chiefs from the north. Why did they not challenge Buhari since? Election has come. Who is fooling whom? All these past seven years, you have not challenged Buhari but election has come. Nobody can fool anybody,” the Rivers governor stated.

Wike, a former presidential candidate, advised Atiku to begin his government of national unity within the PDP by ensuring that Iyorchia Ayu stepped down as national chairman.

For months, the former minister and four other PDP governors have been feuding with Atiku. The governors, known as the G5, have demanded Ayu’s resignation, saying that northerners cannot occupy both the seat and that of the party’s presidential candidate.

“Some people said they will form a government of national unity. It is not to talk but start now to implement it. If you cannot implement the small one, is it the big one (you will implement?)

“I pity poor Nigerians. When I heard people go to townhall meetings and said all kinds of things: they said they will implement restructuring, they will make sure that every zone will have a member in the security council, that it is not good for one zone to produce all the security chiefs but it is good for one zone to occupy all party positions. You see how Nigerians are,” the governor stated.

Wike also stated that despite the crisis, he will not leave the party but will chase out the “armed robbers” within it.

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