Pressure As Atiku’s Camp Sees Peter Obi As A Greater Risk Than Wike In The South, Strikes To Court docket Labour Social gathering’s Candidate

Some allies of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP), former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, reportedly really feel the presidential candidate of the Labour Social gathering, Peter Obi, poses a much bigger risk to the PDP’s flagbearer within the South-South and South-East area.

Some members of Atiku’s camp are jittery over the expansion of the ‘Obidient’ Motion, supporters of Peter Obi, within the South.

In response to The Nation, they consider the problem from the Southeast – historically a PDP stronghold – portends extra hazard to Atiku’s presidential ambition than the unresolved rift with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State.

The supply stated: “The Labour Social gathering presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, might cut up Atiku’s votes within the Southeast and within the South-South, and the race could also be robust for Atiku if he doesn’t agree phrases with Wike.

“And within the Southwest, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo will not be eager on promoting Atiku’s presidential bid. He believes that energy ought to shift to the South in 2023. He has pitched tent with Obi.

“It’s also a dilemma for Atiku to desert some stakeholders like ex-Deputy Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Austin Opara, Senator Lee Maeba and others loyal to him.”

Whereas the Atiku camp considers some states within the South-South, resembling Cross River and Edo, as weak, there are strikes to succeed in out to Peter Obi to discover a mutually useful working relationship.

In response to sources, Atiku loyalists are hoping to leverage the long-standing political relationship between the 2 presidential candidates.

Loyalists of Governor Wike have proposed the appointment of Taofeek Arapaja as performing nationwide chairman of the PDP.

Naija Information experiences that Atiku and Wike, alongside some governors, had been at loggerheads since Might 2022, when Atiku emerged because the presidential candidate of the PDP. The disaster escalated after Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, was unveiled as Atiku’s working mate on June 16. Strikes to reconcile all events have failed.

Atiku had on Thursday met with Wike in London alongside governors of Abia, Benue, Adamawa, and Oyo States. There have been different PDP stakeholders like Donald Duke who had been in attendance.

In response to Premium Instances, Wike’s group, on the assembly, demanded the resignation of the nationwide chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, as its situation for sitting down to barter with Atiku for the help of the group within the coming presidential election.

Giving causes for insisting on Ayu’s resignation, Wike’s group acknowledged that his removing would steadiness the management of the get together by which all the highest nationwide positions within the PDP are being held by members from the northern zones of the nation.

In response to them, the PDP chairman had pledged to step down ought to the get together nominate a northerner as a presidential candidate.