Governors Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State have been encouraged to break up with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State because they are being led to disaster, according to the Ohanaeze N’digbo Youth Council Worldwide.
The group’s national president, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, said in a statement that the guidance was vital to prevent regrets. He asserted that supporting a candidate from a different political party would be extremely unfair to the two governors who are vying for office in their respective states.
Okwu continued, saying, “If the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, had chosen him as his running mate, we wouldn’t have been hearing ‘Ayu must go.'” Governor Wike was engaged in a personal conflict.
“Governor Ugwuanyi is an asset we will need in the senate as he has the experience needed to attract federal presence. However, should Wike lure them into endorsing another presidential candidate, it could backfire and cost him the ticket.
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“We have it on good authority that the PDP national leadership has concluded plans not just to expel the governors from the party but to dissolve their state executives. This should not be taken for granted as it would totally destabilise them and come with huge and avoidable electoral loss.
“What happened to the AD in 2003 should be a lesson to the governors when the party endorsed then president Obasanjo of the PDP and the AD ended up losing every other position,” he said.
“Suffice it to say that Wike is only nursing personal anger and frustration against Atiku and the two South-East governors who are with him should think deeply about it.
“The Rivers governor is not running for election and stands to lose nothing, unlike the other governors who are on the ballot. They should immediately end their romance with Wike,” He went on to advise.
