Atiku Abubakar has warned Governor Nyesom Wike and the other G5 governors in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, against their alleged plot to dump him for a rival presidential candidate, warning that it would mean the end of their political careers.
Speaking through his campaign spokesman, Senator Dino Melaye he affirmed that no envy or blackmail would detract him from his aspiration towards winning the presidency next February.
The five aggrieved governors including Governors Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Samuel Ortom (Benue) and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu states left for London where they expect to agree on a preferred presidential candidate.
The aggrieved governors and some political heavyweights from the South have constituted themselves into a group known as the Integrity Group.
The Atiku Campaign according to Sen. Dino Melaye stated that “No blackmail, hate, or outrageous envy will stop Atiku. I pray it is not true (G-5 governors’ imminent endorsement of their preferred candidate).
“Attacking Atiku will cost them their political future. You don’t fight a man who has done nothing to provoke you. Atiku’s only offence is that he won a presidential primary transparently and openly. No man should play God.’’
“It is too late to stop Atiku. They should have a re-think while they can. Atiku will be president because the people have decided.
“My advice to the G-5 is ‘don’t end your political career because of an inordinate ambition and capricious manifestation that will yield no result.’ If they take that step, it will be the last kick of a dying horse”.
