You Lack Capacity To Talk About Trust, Loyalty – Atiku’s Ally Fires Wike

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Deputy National Youth Leader, Timothy Osadolor, has said Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has no right to talk about trust and loyalty.

Osadolor, an ally of the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, said the PDP aggrieved governors lacked the pedigree to question the former Vice President’s loyalty to the party.

Speaking with The Punch on Tuesday, Osadolor said Wike especially should not be talking about trust and loyalty because he has betrayed all his former principals.

He also berated Wike and his Integrity group over the plan to announce their preferred presidential candidate to Nigerians and campaign for the flagbearer.

He said, “That the G-5 purportedly led by Wike is talking about trust and loyalty is laughable and painful in the ears of discerning Nigerians. If anyone is to talk about trust that person must not even stand close to Governor Wike to do so, for him or her to be taken seriously.

“We know Wike and Wike know himself. He should tell us what happened between him and all those that helped him in the past starting from Peter Odili, who in his large-heartedness still tolerated him, to Rotimi Amaechi, another former governor. Wike coming out to say he will announce his candidate to Nigerians and campaign for the candidate is akin to the last kick of a dying horse.’’

Osadolor also called on the PDP National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, to speak up regarding the crisis rocking the party, adding that Atiku never promised Wike that Ayu would resign from his position.

He added: “Another lie told by Wike was that Atiku Abubakar promised to ask Ayu to resign. How possible is that?

“Go and listen to the speech the chairman gave on resignation. He said: ‘I am a democrat and a party man. If a Northern candidate emerges as a presidential candidate and my party asks me to resign, in the interest of the party, I will.’

“He neither said if a failed aspirant asked him to, nor did he say if Wike asked him to. Rather than ask him to resign, the National Executive Committee passed a vote of confidence on Dr Iyorchia Ayu and the National Working Committee that he leads. How else do you want the party to say carry on?

“We empathise with Governor Wike. He was already seeing himself in Aso Rock as Mr President, as Nigerians are determined to bring back the PDP into the presidency to help salvage what is left of the fabric of this nation.”