Atiku Rejects Wike’s New Offer Of Port Harcourt Stadium, Says He Cannot Be Trusted

The campaign team of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has rejected the renewed offer of the Adokiye Amesiamaka Stadium, Port Harcourt, by Governor Nyesom Wike as a Greek Gift saying it is no longer interested in using the facility.

The Atiku Campaign in a response to the public declaration of the reinstatement of the offer by Wike during a rally on Tuesday said:

“he wrote to us formally cancelling the approval. We also expect Governor Wike to write and not just stand on a podium during the campaign and make statements that depict a very high level of instability.”

GWG.ng reports that the Wike administration had last month written the Atiku Campaign over the withdrawal of the offer saying that it was based on intelligence that the PDP was in cahoots with what it described as the violent faction of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state.

“Credible intelligence available to the Government of Rivers State and recent developments now show that your Presidential Campaign Organisation is working in collaboration and in-cahoots with a faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State led by Tonye Patrick Cole and that it is the intention of your Presidential Campaign Organisation to accommodate and share the approved facility for your campaign with the said faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC),” the statement partly read.

Reacting to the new approval to the Atiku Campaign to use the stadium, during a radio programme, the spokesperson of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council in Rivers State, Dr Leloonu Nwibubasa, said the Council could not take Governor Wike at his words.

Nwibubasa said, “We are aware that yesterday he announced that the stadium has been restored and that he has rescinded his decision.

“But let me state this very clearly, the Presidential Campaign Council of Atiku Abubakar is not interested in Governor Wike’s Greek gift.

“The said stadium that he revoked for reasons that he gave based on intelligence. May I ask, has he reversed those intelligence reports?

“Is the Presidential Campaign Council not colluding with the APC to hold a joint rally in the same stadium? Are there no security reports that show that there had been violence?

“How did Governor Wike come with his reason that there will be violence for which he earlier revoked the stadium?”

In rejecting the offer, he said for the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to use the Adokiye Amesiamaka Stadium, Governor Wike must first write to the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP, the same way he did while revoking the approval.

“He wrote to us formally cancelling the approval. We also expect Governor Wike to write and not just stand on a podium during the campaign and make statements that depict a very high level of instability. At this point, Rivers people should be aware that they have an unstable leader.”

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