By Wale Odunsi An aide to ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Phrank Shaibu has said Governor Nyesom Wike will not leave the Peoples ...
By Wale Odunsi
An aide to ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Phrank Shaibu
has said Governor Nyesom Wike will not leave the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP).
He said the PDP is Wike’s “last bus stop”.
In an article, Shaibu reacted to the visit to the Rivers
helmsman by All Progressives Congress (APC) governors.
The Governors of Ekiti, Ondo and Lagos States, Kayode
Fayemi, Rotimi Akeredolu and Babajide Sanwo-Olu met Wike in Port Harcourt.
Shaibu said the trip was to “bring Wike to their fold or
strike a deal with him, courtesy of one of their newest converts”.
“However, what’s the sense in their move? Have you ever seen
a crowned prince contest for a chieftaincy title?” He queried.
Shaibu said the governor’s move was a sign that the ruling
APC is desperate to retain power and asked what record do they have to attract
Wike.
He noted that Wike will not join a party under whose watch
the Nigerian economy, potentially Africa’s most viable, “is now one of the
continent’s most disastrous”.
Shaibu said the people were not interested in the APC
because they sleep with one of their eyes closed due to the high level of
insecurity.
He said a further pauperization of the marginalized Nigerian
majority has been achieved under President Muhammadu Buhari.
“The Naira has been devalued by more than 300% since 2015–
one dollar which sold for about N230 in December 2015 at the parallel market is
now going for almost N600,” he said.
The author wondered how Wike would leave the PDP when the
APC in Rivers is being led by his predecessor and former minister, Rotimi
Amaechi.
Shaibu said there are many reasons the move by the APC to
poach the governor “is not looking tidy”.
“If they lure Wike to APC, are they going to make him Rotimi
Amaechi’s leader since he is a sitting governor?
“What becomes the fate of Siminialayi Fubara, the PDP
gubernatorial candidate and others who have been picked to fly the party’s flag
in 2023?” He added.
Shaibu said that the mood of the people of Rivers and the
South-South as a whole showed that they are PDP sympathizers.
“The electorate have no alternative to continued and
intensified struggle to put a decisive end to APC’s satanic rule…This is why
PDP is Wike’s last bus stop!” He declared.
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