“Equity, fairness and justice demand that for national loyalty; no one section should dominate the other. This is the injustice PDP deliberately wants to bequeath Nigerians.”
While remarking that the G5 consensus on rotation of presidency to the South has effectively ruled out the PDP presidential candidate, Okechukwu noted that it was left to the group to decide between the two front runners from the South, Tinubu and the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi.
“This latest London conference by the G5 governors led by Nyesom Wike comes as the defining moment for them to take a decisive stand that would guide their followers. It also sounds like the death knell for any possible reconciliation within PDP,” he stated.
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However, a former Rivers State commissioner told some reporters in Abuja yesterday that the agitation by the G5 governors has narrowed down to a power shift to the south, in line with the Lagos declaration by the southern governors.
The former commissioner, who pleaded anonymity, disclosed that while three out of the five governors rooting for the LP presidential candidate were compelled by Obi’s sterling records, the other two were playing some wit games for political survival.
