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2023: Wike leading G-5 governors to political doom, says Ohanaeze youths
2023: Wike leading G-5 governors to political doom, says Ohanaeze youths
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, has asked Governors Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State to quit their relationship with Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike.
Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, the group’s National President, said in a statement on Friday that the guidance was vital to avoid regrets.
Okwu stated that the two governors, who are competing for political office in their respective states, would be doing themselves a big disservice by backing a candidate from another political party.
He observed that, “Governor Ugwuanyi is an asset we will need in the Senate as he has the experience needed to attract federal presence to the State. However, should Wike lure them into endorsing another presidential candidate, it could backfire and cost him the ticket. It will be a political doom.
“We have it on good authority that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, national leadership has concluded plans not just to expel the governors from the party, but to dissolve their State executives.
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“This should not be taken for granted as it would totally destabilise them and come with huge and avoidable electoral loss.
“What happened to the AD in 2003 should be a lesson to the governors, when the party endorsed then President Obasanjo of the PDP and the AD ended up losing every other position.”
Okwu reiterated that Governor Wike was fighting a personal war, stressing that “if the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar had chosen him as running mate, we wouldn’t have been hearing ‘Ayu must go’.
“Suffice it to say that Wike is only nursing personal anger and frustration against Atiku and the two South-East governors who are with him should think deeply about it.”
“The Rivers governor is not running for election and stands to lose nothing, unlike the other governors who are on the ballot. They should immediately end their romance with Wike,” he further advised.
2023: Wike leading G-5 governors to political doom, says Ohanaeze youths
