He Knew He Could Not Challenge The Gladiators – PDP Discloses How Wike Chased Peter Obi From Party

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has revealed how the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, was chased out of the party by the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike

According to the Spokesperson for the Atiku/Okowa, Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala, Obi dumped the PDP after Wike stopped the party from zoning the presidency to the south East.

Speaking during an interview on Arise TV, Bwala stated that the PDP presidential candidate, who was then an aspirant, had also agreed that if the party was to go by zoning then it should go to the South East or North East.

However, Bwala claimed that Wike, in his interest to run for the presidency, removed Uche Secondus as the Chairman of the party before that time.

Bwala said, “The Peoples Democratic Party was planning for the primaries, there were, I don’t want to use agitation, advocacy and people felt it should be shifted to the South East.

“The conversation started growing, it started reverberating to a point where Atiku said if the party was inclined to zoning, he is of the opinion that it should be zoned to the South East or North East because these are the zones that have not benefited and that if it was zoned to the South East, he was not going to contest.

“But Gov Wike, who has an interest in running for President, started by removing Uche Secondus as the Chairman of the party before that time.

And during this time of advocacy and deliberation, Governor Wike ensured that the committee formed to deliberate on the structure of the party and the presidency zoning came out with the findings that support his ambition at the party’s chairmanship level whether it would go to the North or thereabout.”

The PDP spokesman explained that Wike thought that if the chairman comes from the North the presidency would be zoned to the South.

“When it came to the presidential poll, he ensured that the outcome left the people’s poll because of the growing conversation that it should be zoned to the South East when it was agreed that it would go to the South.

“When Obi saw that it was thrown open, he knew he couldn’t challenge gladiators in the party and so he left. Again Peter ought to have been the leader of the party in Anambra but he was frustrated by the command and control of Governor Wike,” he added.