Governor Udom Emmanuel has made a last minute effort to woo the five aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party back into accepting the
Some observers described the attempt as belated and dead before commencement, noting that the governor knew that Wike would not listen to him.
They had publicly denounced their support to Atiku for his insistence to retain Iyorchia Ayu, the party’s national chairman from the North as the National Chairman of the party. But, politics remains a game of interest. Everybody protects his interest and Atiku is not left out in the game. Atiku has never been moved by the demands or better still the threats by the G-5, because he must have weighed the two options and had decided to hold onto the retention of Iyorchia Ayu as the national chairman whom he believed would deliver the North for him at the 2023 election.
He noted that the governors have structures and capacity and should not be neglected if the party wanted to emerge victorious seamlessly, noting that the rift has reached a point where sacrifices must be made so that there can be peace and victory for the party “Governor Ortom made a statement and I am sure you listened to him. I agree one hundred percent with him. We are ready to make peace and I can assure our party that these are governors who have structures, and something to show, these are governors who have capacity. We will do everything possible to put the house together for the 2023 campaign.”
Emmanuel, accompanied by Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, held a closed-door meeting with Wike that lasted for three hours. The outcome of the meeting is still sketchy. Also speaking, a public affairs analyst and commentator in the State, Otuekong Franklyn Isong said that Udom being the chairman of the presidential campaign council of the party took the right step in the right direction stressing, “even the bible says follow peace and pursue peace with all men.”
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