Peter Obi, Governor David Umahi, and other PDP members, according to Daniel Bwala, spokesman for Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party presidential campaign council, were expelled from the PDP by Governor Wike of Rivers State.
On Wednesday, Bwala made the accusation while taking questions for the Channels TV Sunrise daily program.
Recall that Atiku, the party’s presidential nominee, and Wike, together with four other PDP governors running on the “Integrity Group” platform, have been engaged in a protracted argument over the continuation of Iyorchia Ayu as the party’s national chairman.
He said all of Wike’s promise to provide logistics to Obi was a mere distraction.
Bwala said, “If you say you are providing logistics, for example, Peter Obi, whom you chased out of the party, you are providing logistics to Kwankwaso…
“I will give you an instance because, at a time, there was an agitation by the elders of the party from the Southeast that power should be zoned. And I recall Atiku Abubakar even had a conversation where he said if we are talking about zoning that the two zones that should benefit are either the Southeast or the Northeast, and if it was zoned to the Southeast, he (Atiku) was never going to run.
“So he (Wike) has always been saying that he is not an Igbo, even though some people said he is. So because of that, If it was zoned to the Southeast, he was shut out, and he could not run for president, and therefore, this idea of Peter Obi, who participated in 2019 as a vice presidential candidate, if it was zoned, he is going to emerge.”