Ellexy:
Western legacy media and their poverty fetish when portraying Africa....Agenda is powerful sha.

raumdeuter:

PDP helped Wike as much as Wike helped PDP

After 2015 when they lost and every major PDP power dispersed, It was Wike who held fort even when everyone in this Atiku camp were in PDP including this Atiku, Saraki Dino etc were in APC. I saw Dino attacking Ortom for being against PDP, when Dino himself was one of those who joined to sink PDP in 2015

Wike would have gotten a portfolio with PDP IF Atiku won the same portfolio he got with Tinubu?

The likelihood of PDP winning is even low the moment Obi entered the game with or without G5.

Lets analyze it
Of the G5 Ortom supported Obi,
Ugwuanyi and Ikpeazu are inconsequential cos their states was lost to Obi anyway
Wikes Rivers ended 230K APC, 88K PDP, 175K LP. So if Wike had handed over all the APC votes to PDP, It would be PDP320K APC 0. It will be 230K votes gained to cover a deficit of 1.8m. so it will still end with a almost 1.4m margin in favor of APC


What was the margin of Tinubus win over Atiku again? Almost 1.8M votes so how much did the G5 sway?

You said Wike should go and support Atiku, the same people who swindled him, And what was the guarantee that they will even give him a cabinet that Tinubu gave him. When till last minute the people who assured him of votes changed it for him

Wike weighed his options and saw the chances of Tinubu winning was higher than Atikus and decided to join forces with him than support a Betrayer who will still likely lose

Ellexy:
Western legacy media and their poverty fetish when portraying Africa....Agenda is powerful sha.

Itsrm:


The influence of the G5 goes way beyond the G5 states.

They had considerable influence in Lagos, Ekiti, Ondo, Kano, Cross Rivers, Plateau, e.t.c.

There's no way Atiku didn't lose at least 1m votes to that foolishness of ignoring 5 governors with influence in other states without PDP governors.

Theflint1:
PDP moved Wike up the ranks from LGA chairman to minister and then governor, I don't think the party as an instrument had beeb unfair to him, and getting blindsided because of over-confidene wasn't the party happening to him.

Wike would most likely have gotten a portfolio in the Atiku government had he chosen to play ball and reel his g-5 crew in and in 8 or even 4 years down the road he'd be making claim for power rotation South with him looking a solid option.

I don't see how his becoming a somewhat unwanted lackey is anything better than what the PDP would have given him, and this is me speaking on Wike's self-interest alone and not some rubbish bobo or not wanting another Northern after Buhari

BlueRayDick:


Where is the poverty fetish in this screenshot? Did I miss it?

BlueRayDick:


Which of the G5 governors has influence in Lagos? Makinde?

Theflint1:
The people wey post 2023 to 2024 own wey you dey use celebrate, na dem post 2025 own.

Itsrm:


After that betrayal at the convention and refusal to force ayu out, you expect him to trust them to give him any portfolio if PDP had won?

He didn't get where he is today by being stupid.

Theflint1:
There's no way you'd dice Wikes move without it looking like he played himself... Man went from being a major political force in the PDP, probably even potential VP or presidential nominee for the party in years down the road, to becoming one of Emi Lokan's boys with zero prospects of getting any federal acceptance.

BlueRayDick:


Where is the poverty fetish in this screenshot? Did I miss it?

OasisX:




.....check other countries too, especially US. LOL!

Theflint1:
How did Atikus swindle Wike? Wike spending for the party doesn't automatically give him right of refusal to the party's presidential ticket...the convention was a game of numbers and the process was made clear and transparent (no BVAS wahala)... It wasn't Atikus fault that Wike couldn't make the alliances needed to take him over the finish line, and for a first time run, he did well.

Voting dynamics are not simply a +/- thing, I still think Peter Obi wouldn't have swept traditional PDP strongholds as well as he did if PDP didn't have to deal with all the infighting...And as for Atiku appreciating Wike post election, its one of those things we might never know, but judging by precedents, odds were he'd have been, and would just have been if not more relevant than the Emi lokan singer he's become.

GrammarNazi1:

Perhaps, they could have selected a better picture of Tunde?

Itsrm:


The influence of the G5 goes way beyond the G5 states.

They had considerable influence in Lagos, Ekiti, Ondo, Kano, Cross Rivers, Plateau, e.t.c.

There's no way Atiku didn't lose at least 1m votes to that foolishness of ignoring 5 governors with influence in other states without PDP governors.

Itsrm:


Bode Geroge controls the PDP structure in Lagos. He was a member of the "integrity group" which was an extension of the G5.

Itsrm:
Bode Geroge controls the PDP structure in Lagos. He was a member of the "integrity group" which was an extension of the G5.

Theflint1:
Ayu was already seeing his tenure out. If Wike wasn't crying about Ayu, he'd have found another thing to cry about. Wike was not betrayed at the convention, the Tambuwal angle was one he didn't consider or plan properly against.

Ellexy:
Of all the pictures to use it's an old, very old picture of Tunde. When there are 100's of recent pictures to use. Before their worldwide audience, Africa must look poor.

Amigoss:


Tonned skin pic is the fuss?

GloriousGbola:


My man okpa.

Ellexy:
Western legacy media and their poverty fetish when portraying Africa....Agenda is powerful sha.

raumdeuter:


Explain G5 influence in those states. e.g in Lagos, Ondo Ekiti, Plateau and CrossRiver

Ellexy:
Of all the pictures to use it's an old, very old picture of Tunde. When there are 100's of recent pictures to use. Before their worldwide audience, Africa must look poor.

Ellexy:
Agenda is the fuss.

Ellexy:
Western legacy media and their poverty fetish when portraying Africa....Agenda is powerful sha.

DeadPresidents:


Countries wey dem paper long already? The US can point to building trade relationships with countries like Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea that aided their economies to grow to the levels they currently occupy. Who can Russia point to that they put on?

Melvyn11:

The article was covered by a Nigerian journalist Glory Aradi. It's your fellow Nigerian that picked the picture and she used different pictures for her articles both old and new.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68852876


https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cd1qe2glgego

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68852876

Ellexy:
Gloria Aradi is from Kenya not Nigeria.

Itsrm:
Infact, everything that happened at that convention including Tambuwal stepping down was masterminded by Ayu.

How was Wike meant to react? Smile, laugh and dance with Ayu and Atiku so they can give him a better portfolio than what APC has given him.

Easy to see why most of us will never make it as politicians