The alliance between certain PDP governors and FCT Minister Nyesom Wike has caught the attention of Atiku Abubakar’s camp. Atiku, who served as the PDP presidential candidate in both the 2019 and 2023 general elections, has his team concerned about this development.
Demola Olarewaju, Atiku’s former vice president and current Special Assistant on Digital Media and Strategy, has expressed that these governors are at the core of the party’s current challenges.
In a recent post on X, Olarewaju criticized the governors, suggesting that aligning with Wike is an act of disloyalty to the PDP.
He wrote, “Wike’s entire relevance in Nigeria’s political space is directly dependent on his ability to rock PDP’s boat and make it less formidable.”
“Any governor associating with him is a traitor in PDP and I’ll even go further and say: Governors are the root of PDP crises since 2015.
“You can trace every major crisis in PDP to the ‘zoning’ of NWC offices to individual governors ever since the party lost Aso Rock and some of us saw it coming in 2015.
“The current tensions may or may not abate and nationalists must be tactically flexible about party platforms.”
PDP governors are presently in disagreement over the leadership of the party’s structure in Rivers State, with Siminalayi Fubara serving as the current governor. It is known that certain PDP governors are aligned with Wike, while others are in favor of Fubara.
