Wike To Abians: PDP Has Shared All Positions  Against 2023 And Left Abia State Out

By Adesina Soyooye

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has given a window into why he and the Governors in his Camp are fighting the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Until now, the belief was that the fight stemmed from the fact that Wike lost out in securing neither the Presidential nor the Vice Presidential ticket of the Party.

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, took the Presidential ticket and picked Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate as against Wike’s expectations. Since then, Wike’s anger has risen to high heavens.

But it seems there is more.

According to Wike, Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, a member of Wike’s Camp, is fighting because the PDP, in anticipation of its victory in 2023, has shared out all the high profile positions in the country, and gave none to Abia State.

Wike did not, however, say if it was the same case with his State, Rivers, and other States which Governors are in his Camp –  Samuel Ortom’s Benue, Seyi Makinde’s Oyo,  and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s Enugu.

Speaking in Aba, Abia State, where he went to commission the Osisioma Flyover constructed by the Ikpeazu administration, Wike said that the PDP has already shared out all positions, including the Senate President,  the Secretary to Federal Government and other high profile offices without any ceded to Abia State.

He revealed that the positions were shared to Atiku, Okowa and former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki and none was given to Governor Ikpeazu’s Abia State.

Wike told the people that Ikpeazu is fighting because of them. He lamented that the National Chairman of the PDP, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, called them small boys because they were asking for justice and equity and the fulfillment of agreements earlier reached.

Wike: “All those they are fighting are those who are projecting their party. They said that Abia State Governor is a boy. Wike is a boy. Seyi is a boy. Ortom is a boy and Enugu ( Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi) is a boy.

“See what the boys are doing. They that are the men should show us what they are doing.

“Why is Ikpeazu a boy? It is because Ikpeazu said agreement is agreement. You told me you will do this, now time has come for you to do it,  you don’t want to do it. Is it good?

“Ikpeazu said look, you have shared to this one, you shared to Atiku, you shared to Okowa and you shared to Saraki, which one did you share to Ikpeazu?

“When you are sharing Senate President to so so person, you shared Secretary to Government to so so person, which one have you given to the people of Abia.”