Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike said his team, the Integrity Governors of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), are open to a reconciliation. He said this as the G-5, which includes Governors Samuel Ortom of Bauchi State, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, paid a solidarity visit to their Bauchi State counterpart Bala Mohammed yesterday. visited the presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar at his residence in Abuja.
Wike, who apologized on behalf of Oyo Governor Seyi Makinde, who was unable to make the trip due to other commitments outside the country, said they came to offer their support for the challenges Mohammed is facing within the party, and to see the areas they are in they can help with his application for re-election. Wike and his allies were at odds with the party after it lost the PDP presidential primary.
The team is calling for the resignation of Iyorchia Ayu as national president and has withdrawn from the party's presidential campaign. Several reconciliation measures have failed. But Governor Wike told Mohammed that because the PDP integrity governors are the pillars of the party, they have kept their doors open and ready for real reconciliation. “I have stated separately that we have never closed the door on reconciliation. All we ask is fairness, equality and justice.
In fact, this is the trademark that represents the PDP. All we say is, "Look, let's do the right thing." If the right thing is done, the whole country will know the elections are over. This G5 you see is the base of the party, so we wouldn't close the door on reconciliation. Therefore we cannot close the door to reconciliation. We are open
For reconciliation anytime, anytime," he said. Ortom apologized for the remark he made Sunday when receiving the G5 governors in Makurdi that anyone who supports Atiku is an enemy of Benue and will not be a slave to the Fulani. "That's not what I meant when I got caught, but I know it's going to be a logical fallacy anyway if people took it the way I did.
But I want to say to those who have been offended by my comments that I don't mean it, I'm
sorry," he said. Governor Mohammed said that he has always been part of the G-5 but that they would not take him anywhere in the future.
"I was supposed to be with them but they excommunicated me for reasons they know best, but I am very attached to each and every one of them. There isn't a day that I don't talk to them. You go into politics with the people you have things in common with. The presidency has brought us closer, and I appreciate that even though they are not running for a second term, they are addressing your challenges.
Your own principle may be different, but I certainly feel your Pain as much as they feel my own pain. We have a lot in common," he said. The visit comes after the Daily Sun reported that Mohammed threatened to leave the party's presidential campaign council after accusing Atiku of trying to sabotage his re-election.
In a letter to the party's national leader Iyorcha Ayu dated November 3, 2022 and obtained by the Daily Sun, Mohamed claimed that Atiku threatened to "punish" him for speaking out against him during the party's year asked. Presidential primaries.
The governor of Bauchi claimed that Atiku allowed political opportunists to ride on his back to tear him to pieces and that although he complained to the presidential nominee and his running mate, as well as party leaders, betrayal among the guards was compounded be eye. by Atiku, who said he was the leader of the groups.
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