PDP Yet To Zone Presidency, Wike Speaks On Atiku’s Candidacy

Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has reacted to insinuations of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President running for the presidency in 2023.

Wike said he was not aware of Atiku running for the presidency because the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is yet to zone the presidency.

It’s widely believed that Atiku is nursing a 2023 presidential election.

The former PDP presidential candidate is yet to make such an intention known.

However, Wike, while appearing on the Africa Independent Television’s Programme, Focus Nigeria, in Port Harcourt on Friday, said: “I’m not aware of Atiku’s move because the PDP has not yet zoned the presidency.”

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Speaking on the crisis in the party, Wike said it was normal for a political party to experience internal crisis due to varying interests and elections.

He, however, applauded governors for coming together to speak against squabbles and seek how to end the differences within the party.

“I use to be afraid of possibility of an implosion and that could have been the end of the party. But what I saw on Monday gave me a lot of confidence for the first time.

“I have never seen that happen, the way the governors came together and spoke in a convivial manner with no dissenting view. I was impressed,” he said.

However, Green White Green (GWG) had earlier reported that the seeming resolution of the crisis that recently engulfed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP over the stewardship of Prince Uche Secondus as national chairman has opened the way for another battle of intrigues over the party’s future ahead of 2023.

Key to the intrigues, it was gathered from party chieftains, is the zoning configuration of party offices which is also expected to set a direction for the zoning of the 2023 elective and appointive national offices.

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