How South-south Governors Betrayed Atiku, PDP, in 2019 – Wike

By Adesina Soyooye

Nyesom Wike, Governor of Rivers State has revealed how the PDP Governors of the South-south betrayed Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the 2019 Presidential election.

He said that for their betrayal, President Muhammadu Buhari could not have had the spread to be declared the winner of the Presidential election.

Wike made the revelation while putting a lie to the viral  news that he took the PDP, its Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and the Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, to  an Abuja High Court to ask for the disqualification of Atiku, and the declaration of himself, Wike, as the PDP candidate.

Wike said he knew nothing of the suit, and had no knowledge of who the plaintiffs are, or the lawyers. He alleged that the suit was filed by Atiku loyalists just to paint him, Wike, in unflattering colors before Atiku.

He identified some of those doing that as Governors who, instead of going to their States to work for the victory of the Party, clog around Atiku talking nonsense. He said they are the same people who betrayed Atiku and the PDP in 2019.

On how they betrayed Atiku and PDP , he said they allowed Buhari to score 25 per cent in their States and, so, gave him the spread,  something that did not happen in Rivers State.

Wike: “When I see people talking about PDP today, I say to myself, what is going on in this world. In the South-south, they all betrayed us. President Muhammadu Buhari wouldn’t have won the 2019 election because he won’t have had the spread.

“But all the States in the South-south made Buhari to have 25 per cent. It was only Rivers that did not give Buhari 25 per cent. I am challenging anybody on it.”

In 2019, Buhari, against all sentiment at the time, defeated Atiku in the Presidential election. That victory fave Buhari a second term in office.