If the G-5 supports the opposition candidates, Atiku will work against them.
The campaign of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president of the country and presidential candidate for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has made the decision to go all-in ahead of the next general election, which is scheduled for next month.
Despite strong pressure from his supporters to wield the big stick to punish the disgruntled governors and other party members, insiders within the party say Atiku is considering the offer. Since elections are only a few weeks away, the Adamawa legislator has decided to take action against Governor Nyesom Wike and his four colleagues after earlier refusing to give in to pressure.
“Alhaji Atiku is progressively leaning toward party officials’ recommendations to control Wike and his entourage, who have been urging him to do so.”
He has resisted taking action in the past, believing that reason would win out, but this has changed now that the elections are only a few weeks away.
According to a source sufficiently close to the former number two guy, “the thought inside the campaign organization and the camp as we speak today is that we need to identify those for us and those against us so that we can properly organize and deploy election logistics for the election.”
We will react if they (the G-5 governors) work against us, the source who begged not to be named stated when asked about what would happen should the party fail to negotiate a ceasefire among all the warring forces inside it. Regardless of the behavior of the governors who should be PDP leaders in their respective states, the Atiku camp is reportedly working on a number of strategies to guarantee that many of these states, which are typically PDP catchment areas, stay such.
The governors will be pressured into making agreements, and if they refuse, we will collaborate with other chieftains in the different states to deliver the Waziri in those states.
“On top of that, we are keeping an eye on each of them to see whether they’ll turn against us. In subsequent elections when they have their interests by working against their candidates in return, anybody among them does so would be forced to face the same fate, the source said. In the event that the G-5 Governors do not modify their opposition to Atiku’s candidacy, he said, the campaign council would go to campaign in the states represented by the G-5 Governors.
Atiku is scheduled to stop in Ibadan on January 19, 2023, according to Oloye Jumoke Akinjide, a former minister of state for the Federal Capital Territory, who verified this information to our reporter over the phone on Friday.
The former minister said that the PDP’s Oyo State branch was planning to visit Waziri Adamawa on January 19 and that the goal of the group’s most recent solidarity walk was to increase support for
