2023 Presidency Faceoff: You Can't Write Election Results Anymore – Atiku attacks Wike The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presiden...
2023 Presidency Faceoff: You Can't Write Election Results Anymore – Atiku attacks Wike
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate,
Atiku Abubakar, has said Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is not the
custodian of votes in the State.
Wike had vowed never to support Atiku’s 2023 presidential
bid.
He and five other PDP governors have been aggrieved with
Atiku and the party’s leadership after he lost the presidential primaries.
The governor accused Atiku of backing Iyorchia Ayu to remain
as the party’s National Chairman.
Wike and some governors of the party said a particular
region can’t produce PDP’s National Chairman and presidential candidate.
The governor also accused Atiku of sidelining him in the
constitution of his presidential campaign council.
Reacting, Atiku said Wike can’t manipulate votes in Rivers
State following the introduction of electronic voting.
Speaking through the spokesperson of his campaign council,
Dino Melaye, he said it’s wrong for Wike to think he would fail in Rivers
State.
He stressed that the governor can’t decide who the people of
the State would vote.
“It’s very fallacious for you to think that because that
governor is not with your candidate he will lose the State.
“I will cast your mind back to a day when you sat down and
wrote result for a State. We are not in that era any longer. With the advent of
BVAS and electronic transmission of results, in Rivers State for example,
Governor Wike is not the custodian or he is not to appropriate the votes of
Rivers.
“If you now go to elections as it’s now with electoral
reforms, the grassroots matters; the electorate matter; the youth and women
matter. That is why Atiku is speaking directly to the conscience of the
electorate,” Melaye told Channels TV.
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