Wike Has Signed Pack With Tinubu To Destabilise PDP, Youth Group Alleges
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Youth Vanguard has accused Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike of working for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asieaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The group, one of the apex youth movements in the PDP also accused Governor Wike of using the call for the removal of the party national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu as a ploy to distract the party and its presidential candidate ahead of the 2023 general elections.
In a communique made available to newsmen yesterday after its meeting in its state office located at Nassarawa Local Government Area, Kano, Kano State, the National Coordinator of the group, Amb Ibrahim Bala Aboki said, it’s crystal clear now to all concerned Nigerians that the governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike has signed a pack with Bola Tinubu as an agent of destabilization in the PDP.
Amb Aboki revealed that Governor Wike’s activities along with his cohorts in recent times have shown that the governor is using the “Ayu Must Go” campaign to distract the PDP and its presidential candidate ahead of the 2023 general elections.
“We have been made aware of an agreement entered into between the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike and the former Lagos State governor and the All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to destroy the PDP from within in exchange for his protection when he leaves office in 2023. If this is not truly convincing the party leader, Amb Bala Aboki said.
Amb Aboki further confirmed that the Rivers State governor is scared of most of his underhand actions in the state while in office and is making frantic efforts to cover up these ferocious activities.
“Nigerians need to know that the concern of Governor Wike is not the interest of the South as been postulated by him and his friends, but a personal battle to cover up his misdemeanours”
The PDP Youth Vanguard stressed that the governor has been shopping around and talking with presidential candidates of APC, Labour Party and PDP, but has signed a pact with Tinubu who has asked him, Governor Wike to weaken the strength of the PDP from within in the “Ayu Must Go” campaign.
“In the first instance, why is Governor Wike always at the forefront of championing for the removal of party chairmen at any given opportunity? Recall that in 2016 after the loss of the PDP in the 2015 general elections, it was Governor Wike who orchestrated the installation of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as chairman of the party who nearly destabilised the party, but for the Supreme Court ruling of 12 July 2017.
“In the 2017 National Convention of the party, the same Governor Wike denied Chief Bode George, Chief Olagunsoye Oyinlola and others from the South-West from producing the National Chairmanship of the party when the PDP zoned the position to the South and championed the installation of his brother, Prince Uche Secondus as Chairman of the party.
“Before Prince Secondus could complete his tenure, Governor Wike again moved for his removal in order to pave way for his personal and selfish interest of campaigning for a Southern president and later installed Senator Iyorchia Ayu as Chairman of the party. Today, the same governor is calling for the removal of Senator Ayu. Is he the only person in the PDP?
The PDP Youth Vanguard, therefore, calls on the leadership of the party and the presidential candidate to go ahead with its scheduled campaigns. The group also advised party members and supporters nationwide not to be distracted by Governor Wike’s activities, saying that the governor is already carrying out the job assigned to him by Mr Bola Tinubu.
The group congratulates Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) and declared its unalloyed support for the PDP and the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and calls on youths in Nigeria to see the handwriting on the wall and work for the success of the party in the 2023 presidential election.
