Atiku, Wike reconciliation meeting fails in Port Harcourt
The Atiku-Wike reconciliatory team constituted to broke peace in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) between the presidential flag-bearer in the 2023 General Elections in Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, and the 1st runner-up in the party’s primary and governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike which was scheduled to hold on Monday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State failed to hold.
Sources blamed the development on the inability of the representatives nominated by the Atiku camp to show up in the Rivers State capital.
It was gathered that the failure of the Atiku’s nominees may not be unconnected with Governor Fintiri’s hosting of the presidential candidate, his running mate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and other members of the PDP in Yola, Adamawa State, where they received thousands of defectors from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Some of the representatives that were expected at the meeting on Atiku side were the Chairman, Governor Fintiri; former Minister, Adamu Waziri; former PDP governorship candidate in Ekiti State, Eyitayo Jegede, former Cross River State governor, Liyel Imoke, and Jide Adeniji.
Members on the Wike side include: former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Bello Adoke; former Information Minister, Professor Jerry Gana; former Cross River State governor, Donald Duke; former Ondo State governor, Olusegun Mimiko, and former Gombe State governor, Ibrahim Dankwambo.
