The Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, said he had met with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and his camp five times over the lingering crisis rocking the party.
Atiku said the ball is now in the court of Wike and his camp to get back to him before the 2023 elections.
The former vice president stated these while answering questions on why he has been unable to resolve the crisis the PDP at Channels TV town hall meeting in Abuja on Sunday night.
Atiku said: “I have met Wike two times in Port Harcourt, two times in Abuja, one time in London, personally. It is not on my part; it is on the other side; I am waiting for him.”
Recall that Wike and four of his colleagues Governors Samuel Ortom (Benue), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) and some stakeholders in the party had pulled out of Atiku’s campaign and launched what they called the Integrity Group.
The G-5 governors had concluded that until the National Chairman of the Party Dr Iyorchia Ayu resigns and is replaced by a southerner, they would not work for Atiku.
Meanwhile, all efforts by Atiku and other party stakeholders including the National Working Committee (NWC) and the Board of Trustee (BoT) to pacify the aggrieved parties have failed.
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