2023: Nigerians anxiously await next move of Wike, other G5 members

Nigerians anxiously await the next move of the G-5 governors who recently travelled to the United Kingdom to decide on whom to support for the 2023 presidential election.

There were emerging speculations that the governors, led by Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, may end up throwing their weight behind Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party.

However, feelers emerged again Wednesday that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu had met for the second time with the governors.

Wike is not alone. The Rivers State helmsman has four other Governors solidly behind him and are backing every move and calls he makes and are willing to accept any decision from the Ikwerre-born politician.

While Nigerians await the decision of their meeting on the choice of a presidential candidate, an insider said what might be the end point of the meeting.

“Before I answer your main question let me first tell you this, any candidate that these governors have chosen might just be the next President of Nigeria. I will tell you why.”

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“The reason is simple. Wike behaves like a mad man whenever he is chasing something and wants to prove a point. He is going to take that candidate’s campaign for the remaining weeks personal,” the insider, who is an aide to one of the aggrieved governors.

“From what I’m seeing, they may push for Peter Obi. For Wike, it has been Peter Obi and I think Governor Ortom has also bought into that idea.

“They’ve seen that Obi, not Labour Party, has massive support majorly from the youth population and they are convinced that with their support, Obi might just win. But they all need to be in concordance and thoroughly examine their next move.”

Also speaking on the matter, a member of the PDP Campaign Council, who does not want to be mentioned, said the G5 can even travel to the moon to take whatever decision they want to take, insisting their decision won’t change anything.

“Well, whatever they announce now is not new to Nigerians. Nigerians already know their decisions. You will be surprised only if you have not been following the political development since after the presidential primary. They can go anywhere.

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Wike had made good his promise of supporting Peter Obi with logistics by providing vehicles and venue for his presidential rally in Port Harcourt recently.

He went on to vow that he would by January tell Rivers people and his supporters nationwide the candidate to vote for in the presidential election, vowing to move from State to State to campaign for that very candidate.