Wike, Bala Mohammed, Others Are Fighting Jonathan’s Cause, PDP Leaders To Plead For Forgiveness – Source

Some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are planning to reach out to the former president, Goodluck Jonathan to appeal to the five aggrieved PDP governors known as G-5.

The leaders believe the aggrieved governors in the party are fighting the cause of the former president.

The presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar in 2014 had abandoned Jonathan to work for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Meanwhile, the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his allies have been on a different page with the 2023 presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar.

The Governors had condemned northern dominance in key positions in the main opposition party ahead of the 2023 races.

The aggrieved Governors in their call for justice and equality had called on the National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu to resign and be replaced by a southerner.

Meanwhile, some leaders in the party are considering reaching out to Jonathan following the recent outburst by the Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed who also accused Atiku of unfair treatment.

The leaders are seeking Jonathan’s intervention on the issue because the aggrieved governors were his political family who worked under him as federal ministers.

While Governor Wike functioned as the Minister of Education under Jonathan’s presidency, Governor Bala and Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom were ministers of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and minister of state Trade and Investment, respectively.

A source, who is a member of the Atiku/Okowa Campaign Council while speaking with Leadership disclosed that Jonathan is encouraging the governors to fight Atiku because he knows they are fighting his cause.

The source disclosed that the party is sending delegates to Jonathan to plead with him to forgive Atiku.

The source said, “There is no way we will continue to be going back and forth because of a group of governors who seem to have made up their minds collectively to work against the candidate of the party because of one man whose commitment to the PDP had been questionable for long.”

The source when asked who that ‘one man’ was said: “There is no need to hide from the truth any longer; the whole thing we are seeing in the PDP been manifested by Wike and his group is orchestrated for President Jonathan.

“We have ample intelligence that these governors are inspired by Jonathan. He benefitted from this party and it is bad that he is encouraging Governors Nyesom Wike, Makinde, Ikpeazu, Ugwuanyi and Ortom to behave the way they are doing. He knows these five governors are fighting his cause.

“We got so convinced about this when the Bauchi governor, Bala Mohammed, brought in his own angle to it. That was unnecessary and we all know that Bala is the closest northern politician to Jonathan whether in power or not.

“So, what the party has resolved to do, among others, is to send a powerful delegation to the former president to plead with him to intervene. The delegation is not going to accuse the former president but merely plead with him to forgive Atiku because we already know what is brewing underground.

“For instance, today (yesterday), Wike and his colleagues are (were) in Bauchi. Do we need any prophet to tell us what they are up to? We know where they are coming from, but they will all fail.”

The source, however, stated that the five aggrieved Governors can not hold PDP at ransom ahead of the 2023 general elections.

The source added, “There are so many routes to any market, so if these five governors think they can hold us to ransom, they have failed. We have put in place enough measures to circumvent their antics in what looks like an effective shadowing so that they will not sabotage us.

“Already, the party’s Board of Trustees has tentatively approved that all concerned chapters are fortified with a focus on certain personalities who have influence in their various states. And when the time comes, Nigerians will know that the G-5 or whatever you call them are a powerless minority.”