2023: Inside Details of Wike, G-5 Governors’ Deal With Tinubu Emerges
- As the crisis rocking the PDP takes a new dimension in recent days, the presidential ambition of Atiku Abubakar is threatened
- This is as the integrity group of the PDP, the G-5 governors have confirmed their deal with APC flagbearer, Bola Tinubu
- While noting they have done nothing wrong to the PDP for meeting with Tinubu, the inside information of the deal they struck with the APC leader has emerged
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The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu apparently holds the aces in the deal being worked out with the Governor Nyesom Wike-led G-5 Peoples Democratic Party Governors ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Vanguard gathered on Friday, December 30, that the APC candidate whose election comes first has agreed to the deal in principle.
Source: Facebook
The agreement between Wike, G5 Govs and Bola Tinubu
Acting on the confidence of the party’s structure and geo-political spread, the APC candidate it was gathered, will be insulated from making any financial commitment to the G-5 or the party’s candidates whose positions are being sacrificed.
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The usually reliable source said “Having considered the odds, G5 I can tell you have cast their lot with Asiwaju.
“Agreement is signed, sealed and waiting for delivery. As part of the deal, Asiwaju is to deflate his party’s campaign in the respective states to accommodate the interests of the G5.
“We all know that Asiwaju is APC, and APC is Asiwaju. The APC is to concede positions of G5 interests as follows: Rivers- Governorship seat , Abia- Abia South Senate, Enugu-Gov Ugwuanyi Senate seat, Benue- Gov Ortom Senate seat, Oyo- Governorship seat for Makinde.”
Source gives more information about Wike's deal with Tinubu
The source noted to the uninitiated, the case of Oyo State is complex and appears untenable but that the situation on ground points to its simplicity.
According to the source,
“The APC candidate is expected to simply withhold finance and moral support for guber candidate in order to reduce intensity of campaign against Makinde.
“This is further simplified by the fact that as at today, there are effectively three factions in the state. Teslim Folarin, controls one, remnants of the Accord Party who collapsed into the APC are on their own and the legacy parties: Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressives Change and the All Nigeria Peoples Party that came together to form APC-they consider Folarin a usurper and are determined to fight him.”
The source further said,
“It is not for nothing that aside from Tinubu’s open instruction to Folarin to reconcile aggrieved members sometime in June this year, neither the party nor the Presidential candidate have made any serious effort to reconcile them.”
Campaign strategy for 2023 emerge
Asked whether the issue of the state campaign being starved of funds will not be counterproductive, the source said,
“Of course, there will be complimentary funds from the National body but tell you what, it will be channeled through Makinde‘s allies within APC ranks who will know when and how to deploy. In politics as in war, timing is a key component of strategy.”
2023: Powerful APC Governor Sends Strong Warning To Amaechi as Tinubu's Ally Becomes King
Rotimi Akeredolu, the governor of Ondo state, has reiterated his stance on the southern part of Nigeria to produce the next president of the country, adding that the struggle must continue.
The governor made the declaration while hosting Rotimi Amaechi, the former minister of transportation at the government house in Alagbaka, Akure.
Amaechi was in Ondo to attend the staff of office to Chief Olu Falae as the Olu of Ilu Abo in the Akure north local government area of the state.
Atiku In trouble as details of presidential candidate Wike plans to support emerge
Legit.ng earlier reported that the rift between Governor Nyesom Wike and Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the PDP, might give birth to a new dimension in January before the 2023 election.
This is as Wike, who is leading 5 governors of the PDP on their call for justice and equity within the leadership of the party promised to announce his preferred presidential candidate in January.
On this background, a member of the APC's national working committee expressed confidence that Wike-led G5 governors will throw their weight behind Bola Tinubu, APC presidential candidate.
Source: Legit.ng
