EXTRA: I was drinking 40-year-old whiskey when atiku marched to INEC HQ in protest, says Wike | TheCable NigeriaDecides2023
Author:Nyesom Wike, governor of River state, says he was drinking a 40-year-old whiskey when Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party ,Abubakar and Iyorchia Ayu, national chairman of the PDP, led other leaders of the party to protest alleged irregularities that marred the conduct of the presidential election.
The country’s main opposition party had asked that results collated from the exercise be cancelled and elections be redone in areas that had problems.Advertisement“As they were protesting, I just sat down and I took one 40-year-old whiskey. I called some of my friends ‘o boy, sit down. Make una sit down open 40 years.“Then I put on television, see as dem dey do marching . They have become labour union, they have become students union ‘all we are saying…’ chai.
“That you have taken over the role of students’ union, aluta continua. That is what the party has become, aluta continua.”The rift between Wike and Abubakar began after he failed to secure the presidential ticket of the PDP. As a precondition for resolving the rift, Wike and his allies demanded that Ayu step down as national chairman of the party.
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