Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), has headed to the UK in an attempt to resolve his rift with Nyesom
Wike, governor of Rivers state.
TheCable reports that sources close to the former
vice-president said Abubakar is billed to meet with the Rivers governor on
Thursday.
“The PDP presidential candidate headed for London today
after arriving Paris yesterday. He is billed to meet with Wike tomorrow in an
attempt to resolve the issues between them,” a source said.
Also, associates close to the PDP presidential candidate are not happy with the way in which Sule Lamido, former governor of Jigawa, and Babangida Aliyu, former governor of Niger, have criticised Wike and they want Abubakar to call them to order, another insider said.
In an interview with Channels Television on Tuesday, Lamido
said: “We should forget about Wike.”
“Wike is an individual, I don’t think because he is a
governor there he has control and monopoly over the peoples of Rivers,” the
former Jigawa governor had said.
Abubakar’s desperate move to resolve the issues between him
and Wike came a day after Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), met with the Rivers governor in Paris, France.
Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue; Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Okezie
Ikpeazu of Abia, and other PDP stalwarts loyal to the Rivers governor also attended
the meeting.
ABUBAKAR-WIKE RIFT
The PDP has been in turmoil since it held its presidential
primary election in May.
Atiku clinched the party’s ticket after the dramatic
withdrawal of Tambuwal from the race. Tambuwal had asked his supporters to support
the former vice-president.
The crisis in the party escalated after Atiku chose Ifeanyi
Okowa, governor of Delta, as his running mate
Party stakeholders had expressed concerns that Atiku ignored
Wike — who was said to have been preferred by a majority of the PDP’s national
working committee (NWC) members as the candidate for the position.
Both men met weeks ago but they were not able to broker a
truce.
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