Atiku Abubakar deployed Adamu Waziri to meet Nyesom Wike, who is on holiday in Turkey, after the governor rebuffed several attempts by the candidate to arrange a meeting between them.

By Bisi Abidoye


Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday in Turkey refused to grant audience to a former Minister of Police Affairs, Adamu Waziri, who was sent to speak with him by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, those familiar with the matter have told PREMIUM TIMES.

Atiku, our sources said, deployed Mr Waziri to meet Mr Wike, who is on holiday in the Eastern European country, after the governor rebuffed several attempts by the candidate to arrange a meeting between them.

The former vice president has been unable to see Mr Wike since he overlooked him to pick his Delta State counterpart, Ifeanyi Okowa, as his running mate.

Sources said Mr Abubakar had wanted to personally inform Mr Wike that he was not his vice presidential pick before making the public announcement, but the governor left Abuja the night before the announcement, having found out that Atiku had settled for someone else.

The governor has also refused to speak on telephone with Atiku and his emissaries who were trying to have a meeting with him.

Having got wind that Mr Wike was away in Turkey, aides said Atiku deployed the former minister who tracked the governor down to Hilton Conrad Hotel in Istanbul on Thursday.

However, despite the two men running into each other in the lobby of the hotel, Mr Wike declined his request for the two of them to huddle to enable him deliver a message from Atiku.

Mr Waziri was said to have called several friends and some leaders of the PDP in Nigeria on telephone to help persuade Mr Wike to discuss with him, but the governor did not yield.

Contrary to the claim by Mr Waziri on Thursday that he met Mr Wike in Istanbul, aides of the governor insisted that Mr Wike did not grant an audience to the former minister.

Mr Waziri made the claim while debunking a statement by a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos, Joe Igbokwe, that Mr Wike flew to France to meet the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, who is in that country.

”Governor Wike came directly from Nigeria to Istanbul, Turkey. He did not go to France as speculated. This is to debunk the propaganda of the APC through Igbokwe. This is fake news orchestrated by the sinking ruling party which is on its way out,” he said in a telephone chat as reported by Daily Trust newspaper.

When the newspaper asked him of his mission to Istanbul, he snapped; “What is your business with our mission? We came to rest after our national convention. Of course, as a political animal, I do politics anywhere I find myself.”

Speaking in an interview with Arise TV on Wednesday, Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, accused Atiku of not being fair to Mr Wike.

“Atiku should go to him (Wike). Why won’t he ignore their calls? Is that not an insult? Wike is a pillar in the party.

“Currently, Nobody in the party has contributed more for the party to move forward than Wike. If Atiku was not going to honour the decision of the committee, he should have called Wike earlier and informed him. He didn’t do that. You can’t do things anyhow and expect us to be happy,” Mr Ortom said.

Mr Wike had been spotted with Abia State governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, in Turkey. Another picture on Thursday showed the two governors and their Oyo State counterpart, Seyi Makinde, together in Turkey.

Mr Waziri’s telephone number could not be reached as of the time of this report. Mr Wike did not answer or return multiple calls made to him.

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Atiku should divide his 11.5 million votes by 3, that’s what he will score in the upcoming election.

With an Atiku, Wike, Obi and Kwankwaso under one PDP umbrella, the elections would already have been won.

Man has been jinxed never to be President of Nigeria.

With Atiku out of the way, Peter Obi is already the next President, the dying fraudster is not worthy of mention.

He should leave Wike and face his Okowa joor.
Can't he run for King of Dubai, to be president of Nigeria go hard him as it stands now.

The only little threat to Tinubu is athifku.

Once Athifku's train derail, Tinubu should prepare his speech for taking over the mantle of leadership on 29 May 2023.

Obi can never be the president of the zoo.

Make Atiku forget Rivers

Nah The Jargaban Borgu get am abeg.

Atiku will never score up to 400k this time around in Rivers.

He had more than 70% of the vote in Rivers State.

LeoDeKing:
The only little threat to Tinubu is athifku.

Once Athifku's train derail, Tinubu should prepare his speech for taking over the mantle of leadership on 29 May 2023.

Obi can never be the president of the zoo.

But I have never seen Tinubu's urchins facing Atiku. Obi is their nightmare

Peter Obi of Labour Party is simply the best candidate and the man Nigeria needs desperately come 2023 presidential election. He outlined the issues that has bedevilled the country over the years proffering solutions to change the narrative once and for all. Peter Obi said:
1. I can’t sleep because I know what to do! I have gone round the 36 States of the country like I have gone round 31 countries of the world, I know the problems of Nigeria and I know I can fix them easily! Because I can see them, I can fix them!
2. Hunger takes people to the streets! Job and food will obviously take them out of crimes! That’s my specialty, creating jobs and wealth!
3. I have not come out for myself! I have come out for the millions of youths that are losing hope in our beloved country!
I have come out for the millions of women who are afraid of tomorrow and what it holds for them and their children! I have come out for the poor who are asking weather it’s a sin to be a Nigerian! For them, I have come!
4. For people who are asking if Peter Obi has ‘structure’, what structure is bigger and stronger than the collective will of the masses on whose necks the knees of the politicians have been? What structure is greater than the determination of a people who have at last decided to take back their country, their only country?
5. The battle for the rescue of the soul of Nigeria has just begun and we must all be contributive and participative in it.
6. Yes, we may not have the money to share because we didn’t steal any.We have not come to enslave but to serve.
7. Have you imagined somebody giving you money to help you? Bribing you to go and serve you? It’s wisdom to go for a permanent solution than a temporary remedy!
8. This battle is to help Nigerian youths, Market women, struggling families, students, teachers, famers, old and poor, whose helpless looking faces I see everywhere I go. It’s for these people that l, Peter Obi, have come! However, like a drowning man, they must bring out their hands to be saved!
9. In this battle, if you can’t fly, run! If you can’t run, walk! If you can’t walk, crawl! If you can’t crawl, roll! If you can’t roll, shout! By all means we must be on the move and we must be heard!
10. These people are more than 50 million of the Nigerian voting adults. They have the power. Their destiny is in their hands so they can change it. If they will it, they will win it!
11. Remember, the man with energy will always be at the mercy of the man with strategy based on synergy. With God on our side, we shall not fail and we shall not fall! May God help us!
God bless Nigeria!
12. I will rather lose doing the right thing than win doing the wrong thing.
13. Nigeria must move beyond oil; we must move from Consumption to Production nation.

Wike means business with Atiku..

But truth be told, Atiku never did any wrong to Wike or?

Wike, fayose and makinde are probably planning something we might not know now. But whatever it is, I believe its for a southern president.

LeoDeKing:
The only little threat to Tinubu is athifku.

Once Athifku's train derail, Tinubu should prepare his speech for taking over the mantle of leadership on 29 May 2023.

Obi can never be the president of the zoo.

never in this life

Wike is busy trying to broker the Obi/Kwankwaso merger talks.

No time for mgbati mgbati.

It’s the turn of the south.

LeoDeKing:
The only little threat to Tinubu is athifku.

Once Athifku's train derail, Tinubu should prepare his speech for taking over the mantle of leadership on 29 May 2023.

Obi can never be the president of the zoo.

Leaky anus cannot be the president of a country he does not believe in

Till date, I honestly do not understand how an experienced politician like HE Atiku can underestimate HE Wike to the extent of rushing to take a somewhat colourless HE Okowa as his VP choice.

Now he is running from pillar to post, abandoned by those who told him that they can take care of Wike.

He is yet to start campaign yet was elected weeks before Asiwaju Tinubu whose campaign is going on 24/7.

If I were Atiku, I will take Wike at least on the account of party supremacy since Wike is the choice of the party like him.
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JBriel:
What does Atiku expect. He has bashed his ego. Today all stakeholders are leaving PDP or avoiding meetings altogether. They should go and be counting Okowa's disjointed dention Nonsense

Stop this nonsense. In as much as PDP needs to approach the next elections as a unified entity, whoever wants to leave after all entreaties should do their worst. Atiku has all it takes to win next election with or without WiKe. Nobody is bigger than PDP. Wike is not God.

LeoDeKing:
The only little threat to Tinubu is athifku.

Once Athifku's train derail, Tinubu should prepare his speech for taking over the mantle of leadership on 29 May 2023.

Obi can never be the president of the zoo.

Been saving all the useless posts they've been making about how someone had a Pandora haircut, how someone bought a Pandora slippers, how he met and greeted people at the airport, how he flew to Egypt to understudy blablabla, how he woke up and took a dump all by himself, how he drank water by himself, how he jugged in his compound breaking a bucket of sweat, how he wore one wristwatch for fifty years, with a whole lot of inanities too numerous to mention.

Na those very threads we go use laugh them when him come a distant third in the contest.

These guys live in a parallel universe and can never see reality for what it is.

Below would definitely be his fate in the end.

Atiku and the Waziri fellow hate Wike with perfect hatred,but they LOVE RIVERS MONEY.

OLADD:


Stop this nonsense. In as much as PDP needs to approach the next elections as a unified entity, whoever wants to leave after all entreaties should do their worst. Atiku has all it takes to win next election with or without WiKe. Nobody is bigger than PDP. Wike is not God.

Cry me a river

omenka:
Been saving all the useless posts they've been making about how someone had a Pandora haircut, how someone bought a Pandora slippers, how he met and greeted people at the airport, how he flew to Egypt to understudy blablabla, how he woke up and took a dump all by himself, how he drank water by himself, how he jugged in his compound breaking a bucket of sweat, how he wore one wristwatch for fifty years, with a whole lot of inanities too numerous to mention.

Na those very threads we go use laugh them when him come a distant third in the contest.

These guys live in a parallel universe and can never see reality for what it is.

Below would definitely be his fate in the end.

LeoDeKing:
The only little threat to Tinubu is athifku.

Once Athifku's train derail, Tinubu should prepare his speech for taking over the mantle of leadership on 29 May 2023.

Obi can never be the president of the zoo.

Quote me. Atiku's train can never be derailed. Wike is only flexing mussle but he would be tamed in the long run, the same way his bobble was busted and outsmarted in the convention. He either keys into Atiku's project or becomes an orphan in Nigerian politics. Those backing him would pull him down eventually. Atiku WILL win next year election.

OLADD:


Stop this nonsense. In as much as PDP needs to approach the next elections as a unified entity, whoever wants to leave after all entreaties should do their worst. Atiku has all it takes to win next election with or without WiKe. Nobody is bigger than PDP. Wike is not God.

You know nothing of election winning small boy. Ọya take this ball and go play in the rain, your food will be ready before dawn so you can eat and sleep off.

Parachoko:
Make Atiku forget Rivers

Nah The Jargaban Borgu get am abeg.

Atiku will never score up to 400k this time around in Rivers.

He had more than 70% of the vote in Rivers State.

With Wike in 2019, PDP/ATIKU only scored roughly above 473000 votes. Wike is overrated and he knows it. While I want him to be in Atiku's camp, he should do his worst if he refuses to be pacified.

Ndibuna:

You know nothing of election winning small boy. Ọya take this ball and go play in the rain, your food will be ready before dawn so you can eat and sleep off.

I have been following Nigerian politics before you were conceived. Try to learn and eschew naivety.

All Na lie! Reporters can lie.

Wike might decamp ooo

OLADD:


With Wike in 2019, PDP/ATIKU only scored roughly above 473000 in 2019. Wike is overrated and he knows it. While I want him to be in Atiku's camp, he should do his worst if he refuses to be pacified.

You are naive and don't understand issues. Refrain from prying into matters bigger than you

richiemcgold:
Wike, fayose and makinde are probably planning something we might not know now. But whatever it is, I believe its for a southern president.

I am a Yoruba man but I can tell you that any such attempt by the trio will burn their fingers very badly. No Southern candidate from PDP can win the 2023 elections and if they choose to team up with the opposition the three of them would end up been disgraced.

JBriel:




You are naive and don't understand issues. Refrain from prying into matters bigger than you

Bunkum. Absolute bunkum. Can you tell me what the issues are?

PDP really needs Wike.

Wike would have been a better threat than Okowa

Wike held PDP together when Atiku went a whoring with APC.

Only for him to return to wrestle power from those who held forte in his absence

Na who be mumu...Wike ba?

Never...

He who comes to equity must come with clean hands.

Never again!

#Obidient for life.