Atiku Vs Wike: Oshiomhole Speaks On PDP Crisis, Backs G-5

The former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has reacted to the crisis rocking the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Naija News reports that the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and four other aggrieved governors have been on a collision course with the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

The four other aggrieved governors are Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), and Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia).

Wike and four other PDP governors known as the G5 have demanded the resignation of the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, saying that the PDP national chairman and presidential candidate cannot come from the North.

The five aggrieved governors also pulled out of the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organisation, demanding Ayu’s removal as a condition to return.

Speaking at the inauguration of the Rumuepirikom Flyover in the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers state, Oshiomhole said Wike and allies have shown leadership character with their demands.

The former Edo governor commended Wike and the other governors for insisting that politics is not about making agreements that cannot be kept.

Oshiomhole asserted that executive exchanges have a way of communicating to the people that the political divide is not war.

He said: “Two weeks ago, I had an interview and somebody asked me what are my views with particular reference to the issues in PDP as they relate to Your Excellency (Wike).

“I said Wike is my man of the year because he is insisting that politics is not about making agreements that we do not intend to deliver on. Leadership is about character.

“So, if you voluntarily reach an agreement, you are expected to obey your agreement. Now, if you disobey the agreement and said, ‘No, I will stand with the agreement’, what is wrong with that?”

Oshiomhole also recalled that the 17 Southern governors in Nigeria met on May 11, 2021, in Asaba, Delta State, and resolved that the next President of Nigeria should emerge from the Southern region.

He said the Asaba Declaration by governors across party divides was on their own free will and they were united on where the next President should come from.