Wike cheats Makinde, Ortom, Ikpeazu, Ugwuanyi – PDP campaign

A spokesman for the People’s Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council, Mr Daniel Bwala, has said that Rivers State governor and leader of the aggrieved G-5 PDP governors, Nyesom Wike, deceived his four colleagues about the presidential candidate they would jointly nominate. supports. .

Bwala claimed that Wike supported All Progressives Congress presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu but was unable to make this public because he had given his colleagues the impression that he supported Labor Party presidential candidate Mr Peter Obi. .

The four governors are Samuel Ortom of Benue State; Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State; Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and Seyi Makinde of Oyo State. The governors had vowed not to support the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, unless the national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, stepped aside.

In an interview with Saturday POINT, Bwala described Wike as unimportant and noted that he reneged on his promise to announce the preferred candidate of the G-5 and Integrity Group for fear of outright expulsion by the party. He said open support for another party’s candidate would be proven anti-party activity against him.

He said: “He is dishonest and unimportant. You remember he promised to announce their preferred candidate in January. When a BBC correspondent reminded him of the promise, he replied that January was not over. Now that January is over, he said he said he never revealed to anyone their preferred candidate’s method of disclosure He now says he told his people who to vote for.

“He cannot announce his candidate because he knows the consequences. The party can outright expel him for gross misconduct and anti-party activities. He made them (his colleagues) believe that he was behind Peter Obi. So he can’t come out openly to show support for the APC candidate now because the other four governors don’t want Tinubu.

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