Wike’s men to Atiku: you are treading losing path again
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Staunch Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders in Rivers and loyalists of Governor Nyesom Wike have told the party’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, that he is on a path to losing again in 2023.
Wike’s foot soldiers and grassroots leaders fumed at alleged ongoing attempt by Atiku and his think tanks to create a crisis in Rivers PDP by dividing the party and building a separate structure from that of the governor ahead of the election.
One of the pro-Atiku leaders and former two-time Senator, Lee Meeba, had taken a swipe on the governor in an interview he granted to a television station in Abuja accusing him of dictatorship.
He said Wike had vowed to stop them from campaigning for Atiku in the state without his expressed permission lamenting that the governor frustrated his bid to contest the governorship primary of the party.
Meeba, who was recently kicked out of the Governing Council of the Elechi Amadi Polytechnic as its Chairman by the Governor, said Wike did not allow him employ anybody in the institution and refused to fund the polytechnic because of him.
But Wike’s men said the move by Atiku to recruit some leaders they described as spent forces and Abuja-based politicians to fight the Governor showed he was not interested in genuine reconciliation.
The Chairman of Emohua Local Government Area and Wike’s staunch loyalist, Dr. Chidi Lloyd, took swipe at Lee Meeba describing him as a coward without electoral value.
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He said it was cowardice elevated to the national level for Meeba, a two-time governor to claim that Wike ordered him not to run a governorship election.
On Atiku, he said: “It is obvious that Atiku wasn’t destined to be president with his body language. As a Catholic I will tell you that clearly. I haven’t seen a man, who is given delicious food and he pushes it down.
“Nobody abdicates his pulpit to intruders. Atiku came back to the PDP from the APC, contested the 2019 election, lost and proceeded to Dubai. He was on that long vacation until the election period. He came back.
“This is somebody the former President told us that if he had handed over to him God wouldn’t have forgiven him. Do they think that we don’t have memory? It is in Obasanjo’s book. Rather than look for ways and means to pull everybody together on a table, the likes of Lee are running to Abuja. Is that where the election will hold?
“I want to remind Lee that his school, the secondary school he attended in his community is leaking. He attended Government Secondary School, Rumeme. No roof”.
