Former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has slammed the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, following the claim by the latter that Peter Obi left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2022 to contest for president under the Labour Party because he (Lamido) told Obi that the North must produce President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor.
POLITICS NIGERIA recalls that Wike had during a meeting on Thursday with the National Executive Committee of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide at the Government House in Port Harcourt slammed his party, the PDP, for their alleged support for a Northern presidency in 2023.
Wike said he felt satisfied that southern Nigeria has produced the next president of the country, resulting from the outcome of the February 25 2023 election.
He stated that the electoral outcome is now an undeniable justification of the undeterred advocacy embarked upon by the G-5 governors of the PDP “who worked so hard and contributing their quota” to realise that feat.
Wike’s revelation on the behind the scene events in the party comes a week after the PDP was defeated in the presidential election.
The governor has insisted that he has no regret working against his party’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
But reacting to Wike’s claim against him, Lamido rebuffed it.
“My good friend Chike Okonkwo sent me a WhatsApp message to the effect that Wike said Peter Obi left PDP because when he visited me in my village I told him (Peter) that the Presidency Is for the North!
I will deny Wike the chance to get me entangled in his desire to be visible and relevant. Suffice it to say that Peter visited me along with my friend Doyin Okupe and they are both alive to attest to the veracity of this claim,” Lamido wrote on his known Facebook page on Friday.
This newspaper reports that Messrs. Wike and Lamido have endured a rocky relationship. During campaign, Lamido had called Wike’s bluff, calling him a “bombastic emperor”.
