Background: Obi, a earlier Governor of Anambra State, was gearing as much as enter the fray of the PDP presidential major election till the get together’s larger echelon opted to make it a stage taking part in area for candidates from each the Northern and Southern areas.
Throughout his look on Come up Tv’s The Morning Present on February 15, 2023, Daniel Bwala, a Spokesperson for the Atiku/Okowa Marketing campaign Group, elucidated that their get together had initially mentioned the potential for allotting the presidential ticket to the South.
Nevertheless, these intentions have been foiled when Governor Wike intervened and prevented the South East from securing the nomination.
He narrates the story: “The dialog began rising, it began reverberating to some extent the place Atiku stated if the get together was inclined to zoning, he’s of the opinion that it must be zoned to the South East or North East as a result of these are the zones that haven’t benefited and that if it was zoned to the South East, he was not going to contest.
“However Gov Wike, who has an curiosity in operating for President, began by eradicating Uche Secondus because the Chairman of the get together earlier than that point.
“And through this time of advocacy and deliberation, Governor Wike ensured that the committee fashioned to deliberate on the construction of the get together and the presidency zoning got here out with the findings that help his ambition on the get together’s chairmanship stage whether or not it could go to the North or thereabout.
“He was considering that if the Chairman comes from the north it was pure the presidential candidate would come from the South.
“When it got here to the presidential ballot, he ensured that the end result left the individuals’s ballot due to the rising dialog that it must be zoned to the South East when it was agreed that it could go to the South.
“When Obi noticed that it was thrown open, he knew he couldn’t problem gladiators within the get together and so he left. Once more Peter should have been the chief of the get together in Anambra however he was annoyed by the command and management of Governor Wike.”
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