Politics
Okowa: What I Told Atiku Before Defection
By Emmanuel Aziken

2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP vice-presidential candidate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has opened up on his communication with his erstwhile principal, Atiku Abubakar prior to his defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC saying that the flagbearer is also set to dump the PDP.
Okowa, the immediate past governor of Delta State denied the claim that he was hounded by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC saying that there were no sins on his head to have coerced him into the ruling party.
He spoke in an interview on Arise News Television monitored by GWG.ng.
Asked on his communication with Atiku prior to his defection from the PDP, Okowa said:
“I actually did communicate with him that we were going to have stakeholders meetings and that we were going to have the stakeholders’ meetings this week (in the last week) and that it was going to be a leadership meeting and the outcome of that meeting was going to determine our next path because we were no longer comfortable with the PDP.
“And I also know that he is already heading out of the PDP from the communications he has passed on to me and that Nigerians know already.”
According to him the discussions among his stakeholders was to choose the APC over the coalition being framed by Atiku and other opposition elements.”
Okowa also revealed that he was challenged pushing for a northern candidate during the 2023 election campaign as he revealed that he was made to reckon with the sentiment of the electorate which was disposed towards a Southern president in 2023. He blamed the same sentiments for the failure of the PDP in the presidential election saying that he bounced back to reckoning in the governorship election when he delivered the PDP’s governorship candidate, Sheriff Oborevwori.
“For those who doubt my political reach they should wait till the next election and for those who doubted my political reach (in 2023 presidential election) when we went into the governorship election it was obvious who were the masters of the game.
“The issue of the presidential election was that as at 2023 it was a matter of north/south. It was a matter of north/south politics. The people of the south were interested in a southerner coming in as president after Buhari’s tenure,” Okowa said.
On the claim that his defection was instigated by the EFCC, he said:
“In the first place there are no sins to be forgiven because no sins were committed. A communication was sent to me, I was overseas at that time and when I returned I reported to the EFCC to answer to their queries and as I said at that time , I am not afraid of being investigated because I have worked for Delta State,” he said.
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