Tinubu, PDP G5 Governors Set To Announce 2023 Agreement

To finalise the deal on the 2023 presidency, the Governor Nyesom Wike led G5 governors in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are set to meet with the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Daily Trust has reported.

A reliable source close to the former Lagos State governor, said barring any last-minute change, the meeting will be held in one of the European countries this week.

The source, who refused to give the exact date of the meeting, however, said it is being conveyed to firm up their deal on the 2023 presidency with the governors.

He said the PDP G5 governors, comprising Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) would after the meeting make their preferred presidential candidate known to the public with Tinubu now tilting towards the advantage.

The governors, it was gathered are already in the United Kingdom ahead of the meeting.

“The support by G5 for Tinubu is going to be a game changer, akin to the declaration of the G6 for the APC in 2014.

“We are meeting with the group this week in Europe to firm up the arrangement. They are first-class nationalists who believe in the Nigeria project and we shall work together for the good of the nation,” he said.

Arising from the presidential primaries of the PDP that produced a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Daily Trust reports that there has been a crisis rocking the leading opposition party.

The nomination of the Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, as the vice presidential candidate ballooned the internal wrangling with the five governors calling for the head of the national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu.

Several efforts by the various organs of the party to pacify the governors have hit the rock. 

G-5 govs mum as Nigerians await Wike’s announcement January 

Efforts to get the reaction of the aggrieved governors yielded no results as the spokesperson for Wike, Kelvin Ebiri and Makinde’s Taiwo Adisa did not pick up their calls at the time of filing this report. But Wike had on Thursday said he would disclose his preferred presidential candidate in January 2023.

Speaking, while commissioning a project in Port Harcourt, Wike said he will not only tell his people who to vote for but will campaign for his choice of presidential candidate throughout the country. “Nothing will happen.”

“So, all of you who have been in suspense, who have been saying all kinds of things, abusing me; wait, January is here,” he said.

In October, the Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde while speaking through his deputy, Bayo Lawal, endorsed the candidature of Tinubu.

Similarly, the Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom had in November said he would not support Atiku’s presidential bid.

Ortom, who spoke when he hosted his colleagues in Makurdi, said   “To hell with Atiku and anyone supporting him. They should go and tell him. You want me to be a slave for a Fulani. It’s better I die. Anybody supporting Atiku is an enemy of Benue” 

Source: Daily Trust

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