The aftermath of the 2023 Presidential election in Nigeria won by Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the APC has been characterized by lots of controversies and political drama across political party affiliations. The main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the Labour Party, LP, are in the forefront of those challenging the outcome of the aforementioned election, on the ground that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC did not conduct a free, fair and credible election.
Meanwhile, the outgoing Governor of Rivers State, Barr. Nyesom Wike has taken a swipe at his party, the PDP and its 2023 Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for leading a protest to the INEC headquarters in Abuja yesterday, March 6, 2023, as part of their grievances against the conduct and outcome of the said election.
(Atiku Abubakar during their yesterday’s protest to INEC office. Credit: Vanguard News)
During a project commissioning exercise in Rivers State, Wike mocked the PDP saying that while others are demonstrating that himself is commissioning projects, and that he has no time for demonstration, but for commissioning projects. He also stated that he had earlier warned the PDP for flouting the party’s constitutional provisions on the issue of zoning, as such, they were destined to loose the 2023 Presidential election.
Further, he made it clear that he’s one of the apostles in the forefront of ensuring that power must return to South. Equally that he owe no one any apology for insisting that power must shift to the South, on the ground that the North has had power for eight years, and that justice, fairness and equity demands that power must return to the Southern part of the country. Also, that he’s not interested in persecuting anybody for voting for any party candidate of their choice, be it Labour Party, All Progressives Congress, etc, but that the main target is for South to produce the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
(Wike during project commissioning in Rivers State on March 6. Photo credit: Arise TV)
Recall that Governor Wike is among the five PDP Governors known as G-5, made up of Governor Ikpeazu of Abia State, Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, Ortom of Benue State, Makinde of Oyo State and Wike of Rivers State. The Governors main grievances was that the National Chairman of the PDP who’s equally a northerner must resign his position to make way for a new chairman of southern extraction, since the party’s Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is from the North. This made these Governors to support different presidential candidates of their choice other than Atiku Abubakar.
