Why Wike tackles Atiku after he boasts he will always win PDP’s presidential ticket

The race for the PDP presidential ticket for the February 25, 2023 presidential election in Nigeria has continued to generate a lot of controversies and internal wrangling in the main opposition party.

The former Vice President and PDP Presidential candidate in the 2019 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar and the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike are tipped to fly the presidential ticket of the party.

Although the two influential politicians have not declared their intention officially to contest the presidential ticket of the party, their body language however, showed that they might be contesting the presidential race on the platform of PDP.

A report by PUNCH Newspaper showed that the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has tackled the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over his recent comment on the presidential ticket of the party. Atiku recently boasted that he will always win the party’s presidential ticket.

The Rivers State Governor felt Atiku was wrong to have made such statement at this crucial time because of the controversies surrounding the party’s presidential ticket.

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Wike also also stated that Atiku’s statement could amount to taking the convention delegates for granted.

The Rivers State Governor believed that Atiku has gone too far with such statement and never expected a politician of his calibre to make such claim on the ground that it is capable of dividing the party.

Wike who is one of the politicians rooting for southern presidency in 2023 revealed that the outcome of the PDP presidential primaries will shock many.

Recall that there have been agitations by the southern politicians on the platform of PDP to produce the presidential candidate of the party. They argued that the northern region produced the 2019 presidential candidate of the party and the south should be allowed to produce PDP candidate in 2023 presidential poll.

They also argued that the south ought to produce the next President of Nigeria after the eight years of Presidentt Muhammadu Buhari who hails from the northern region.