The Atiku Solution, a campaign support group working for the victory of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has called on the party to take a decisive action on Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike.Speaking in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, on Saturday, the Deputy Chairman, The Atiku Solution (TAS), Mr Christopher Abarowei, said the party is supreme hence Wike should respect the party, its leadership and right of other persons. Abarowei, who is also a member of the Elders’ Council of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), therefore urged the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP to act immediately and caution Wike either persuasively or wield the punitive stick of sanction on him either by suspension or expulsion from the PDP.
Why will these two people be having issues with each other when they are supposed to be on the same page? The reason being that they are in the same political party (PDP). This motion they move against Wike by the Atiku campaign committee, I believe, is because of the dismissal of the approved site for the presidential candidate campaign, which was scheduled to hold on the 14th of February 2023. According to the River State Governor, his claims for the cancellation were based on the information he received that the proposed site was going to be used by both the PDP and APC political parties and that it would result in campaign violence, etc. To me, I believe that from the start, the River State Governor was never going to support his political party's choice of representative for the presidential candidate. There are photos and videos of the River's State Governor parading along side the Labour Party's presidential candidate, Peter Obi, which many are saying he is indirectly campaigning for the opposing political party.