Fear Grips Atiku As Tinubu Visits Powerful PDP G5 Governor, Photos, Video Emerge

Fear Grips Atiku As Tinubu Visits Powerful PDP G5 Governor, Photos, Video Emerge

  • Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, has met with Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu state at the state house
  • Tinubu, in the company of Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi and Imo's Hope Uzodinma, met with the governor after his campaign rally in the state
  • The APC presidential candidate was earlier reported to have made a deal with the PDP G5 governors in London, in which both of them have denied

Enugu - There is growing tension in the camp of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as his counterpart in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, meets with one of the aggrieved governors of his party.

Following his campaign in Enugu on Wednesday, January 11, Tinubu paid a courtesy visit to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi at the state house, a development that is unusual for the APC presidential candidate.

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Tinubu visits Governor Ugwuanyi of PDP in Ebonyi Photo Credit: Tinubu/Shettima Media Support
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Tinubu meets Wike's ally in Enugu

Ugwuanyi is one of the aggrieved governors of the PDP who are referred to as G5 or Integrity Group and have vowed not to take part in the presidential campaign of Atiku.

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Other G5 of the PDP include Nyesom Wike of Rivers, Okezie Okpeazi of Abia, Seyi Makinde of Oyo and Samuel Ortom of Benue state.

It was recently reported that Tinubu made deal with 4 of the 5 aggrieved PDP governors in London but the former Lagos state governor denied having a deal with the Wike-led G5.

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The PDP on the other hand had vowed to expel the G5 governors and dissolve the structure of the party in their states if they declared support for any other presidential candidates aside from Atiku.

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The governors have also denied having any deal with any presidential candidate and would make their preferred presidential candidate known to their supporters.

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"Asiwaju has only one opponent": Presidency reveals how Tinubu will defeat Atiku, dismisses Obi, others

Legit.ng earlier reported that the presidency has dismissed the claim that Peter Obi, Labour Party presidential candidate, has any chance in the 2023 presidential election.

Bashir Ahmad, President Muhammadu Buhari's special assistant on digital communication, said Bola Tinubu of the APC has only one opponent in the race judging by the limited crowd that attended Obi's rally in Anambra.

According to Ahmad, the only opponent of Tinubu is Atiku Abubakar of the PDP and the APC knows how to squarely defeat him in the poll.

Source: Legit.ng

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Bada Yusuf (Politics and Current Affairs Editor) Yusuf Amoo Bada is an accomplished writer with 7 years of experience in journalism and writing, he is also politics and current affairs editor with Legit.ng. He holds B.A in Literature from OAU, and Diploma in Mass Comm. He has obtained certificates in Google's Advance Digital Reporting, News Lab workshop. He previously worked as an Editor with OperaNews. Legit’s Best Editor of the Year for Politics and Current Affairs Desk (2023). Contact: bada.yusuf.amoo@corp.legit.ng