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Why I Didn’t Pick Wike As Running Mate – Atiku Opens Up - Politics (2) - Nairaland 2r2c32

Why I Didn’t Pick Wike As Running Mate – Atiku Opens Up (32451 Views)

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sylve11: 9:00am On Mar 26
Hmmm cool
Cheapgadget(m): 9:00am On Mar 26
bloody Hooligans in power, Nigerian politicians are disgrace to humanity, scalawags,
georgeakins: 9:00am On Mar 26
PresidObi:
The people that told you to pick a paperweight Okowa must e working for jagaban.

Peter Obi won everywhere in Delta state that Okowa was still a sitting governor.

Jagaban has conquered Obi and his illiterate blodas

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Iweakbro: 9:01am On Mar 26
Dalohad:
The truth is that Northerners don't like Wike. They insisted that Atiku should not pick him.

It's all common knowledge.

Hehe
oyeb15: 9:02am On Mar 26
PresidObi:
The people that told you to pick a paperweight Okowa must e working for jagaban.

Peter Obi won everywhere in Delta state that Okowa was still a sitting governor.


Infact , picking okowa was a huge waste

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Hellisreal70: 9:02am On Mar 26
Power must change hands.
The masses have suffered for long.
It's time for the masses to enjoy.
The masses are not slaves.
The masses are human beings too with equal constitutional rights, even more than the few looters.
GloriousGbola: 9:03am On Mar 26
wike is too radioactive to run on a president or vp ticket. all that rivers is a christian state , alleged mosque demolition, extra judicial killings in oyingbo -he was carrying to much baggage
anonimi: 9:03am On Mar 26
VnAhunnaPl:
Atiku knows that Wike would have exposed him.

Exposed him as what?
Expose him as corrupt while he is saint

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oyeb15: 9:03am On Mar 26
if a Northern Candidate pick a Northerner as Vice right now, they will win.

The present has erode every trust in any Southern presidential candidate.

Atiku/kwankwaso will be strong enough to handtwist d present.

After their tenure, there will be strong appeal for Southern president probably Obi or Rotimi Ameachi
Urgent1Million: 9:05am On Mar 26
Ok.
I'll patiently await Wike's response.
That's the one that is always interesting. 😂😂😂😂
Before you say Wike's talk is full of crap, just know that's why I find it interesting.
zoghys: 9:06am On Mar 26
VnAhunnaPl:
Atiku knows that Wike would have exposed him.

Expose who, what's the difference between them.
Mandate1: 9:07am On Mar 26
PresidObi:
The people that told you to pick a paperweight Okowa must e working for jagaban.

Peter Obi won everywhere in Delta state that Okowa was still a sitting governor.
no one else would have done better. Even Wike as running mate will lose to Obi in Delta.

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Roger3D(m): 9:08am On Mar 26
PresidObi:
The people that told you to pick a paperweight Okowa must e working for jagaban.

Peter Obi won everywhere in Delta state that Okowa was still a sitting governor.
But Peter Obi left the party well before the PDP primaries. He wasn't even among the choices

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Mandate1: 9:08am On Mar 26
Dalohad:
The truth is that Northerners don't like Wike. They insisted that Atiku should not pick him.

It's all common knowledge.
and I'm sure they are happy he wasn't picked. Wike is unpredictable.

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anonimi: 9:09am On Mar 26
fuckJones:
atuku prefer jumping than running this time

Wicked, ologogoro Wike is the one who made Pandora Bitter Obi jump from capitalist PDP to communist LP after jumping from the regional APGA party.

anonimi:
2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury

Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.

One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.

Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.

https://www.thecable.ng/2023-pdp-and-politics-of-healing-wikes-self-inflicted-injury/amp

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Belleful: 9:10am On Mar 26
Now I know who to blame for the Rivers State crisis. It's Atiku I blame. If Atiku had pick Wike, the results he wrote for Tinubu would have been for Atiku. Both Atiku and Wike would have lost, and Wike wouldn't have become a Minister. Wike would have been like okowa with no federal power. Atiku I blamed you.
Psady(m): 9:10am On Mar 26
He asked the committee to come up with three names ,and he picked okowa because his name was first on the list, I find this hard to believe. But something I know a day will come same Atiku when he has little or nothing to do with politics will tell the whole world the truth,just like Babaginda.

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lapintoz: 9:10am On Mar 26
And FeeDeeFee has not recovered till date !
Dalohad: 9:10am On Mar 26
Mandate1:
and I'm sure they are happy he wasn't picked. Wike is unpredictable.

Wike is a mad man that should be kept on a leash.

When govt changes in 2027. He will either end up in jail or runaway from Nigeria like a coward. grin

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hopedey: 9:11am On Mar 26
PresidObi:
The people that told you to pick a paperweight Okowa must e working for jagaban.

Peter Obi won everywhere in Delta state that Okowa was still a sitting governor.

Just as Peter Obi won Lagos state where the APC candidate came from

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zeyt: 9:11am On Mar 26
The way I say it, Atiku such ditch his ambition for President. He is no any different from Tunibu.
anonimi: 9:12am On Mar 26
Salewa97:
Atiku the flip flopper.

This same guy was lamenting about Wike not being his running mate few months ago. Now he is giving us this flimsy excuse.

God will punish Atiku and his 3rd force allies.

Why did you forget about the source of your unsubstantiated rumour

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Allogic: 9:12am On Mar 26
Heffalump:
If Atiku had made the mistake of picking Wike as running mate in 2023, it wouldn't have changed anything. Wike is not acceptable much in the North because of his madness.

The Obi's Tsunami is something to reckon about. On the other hand, if Obi had remained in PDP and Atiku runs with him like in 2019, then it would have been finished for APshit.
. Political sense full your head. No other truth about 2023 presidential poll.

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gigabyte13: 9:13am On Mar 26
Campaign after election
You go explain explain tire
No evidence.......
Anything to justify his stupidity
The Wike camp simply said
Since you have the presidential ticket, give the South the party chairman, you and your group refused.
Talk about that one Mr ATIKU...
Sincerely Atiku is not a smart politician
He is too "MUMU" as a politician
All he knows is how to throw money around

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Successlane: 9:14am On Mar 26
Don't bother explaining, the same reason why Yaradua did not pick Odili as running mate... if you know, you know
SonofElElyonRet: 9:15am On Mar 26
Even Tinubu can't pick Wike as running mate. Always scheming to be President.. Even now, that's his game plan. Tinubu is only a means to an end
excanny: 9:16am On Mar 26
Pick PO as VP this time and we will help u remove the current buffon we have as president.
Belawy(m): 9:16am On Mar 26
Of what electoral value is Okowa?
professorPABX: 9:20am On Mar 26
Dalohad:
The truth is that Northerners don't like Wike. They insisted that Atiku should not pick him.

It's all common knowledge.

Who do they like? Wike financed most of the PDP projects including some elections, though he was ed by few governors who stood by him. The party was kept alive mostly by Wike before the election. Tambuwal received =N=500 million from Wike as for Market reconstruction. That time I complained of markets that were destroyed by fire at Oyo and Lagos but Wike didn't send money. At last, Tambuwal that betrayed Gbajabiamila, betrayed Wike.

You left a Party for years not knowing how the Party survived only to come and pick the Party Ticket, is that Democracy? Even AWOLOWO cannot leave Action Party or UPN and come back after some years to pick the Presidential Ticket except he forms another Party.

Also, I don't blame you and your people, it is Pa Ayo Adebanjo and Okupe that I blamed, otherwise, today nobody would have known OBI exist. I know even before they died that both of them will not witness next election . The old man that handed over Afenifere leadership to Pa Ayo Adebanjo due to old age and health issue is still alive he collected the leadership of Afenifere from him in 2023 that is how gods of the Yoruba work. OBI was nobody in Nigeria politics and a political orphan before Pa Ayo Adebanjo and Okupe carried him on their back, today none of them is witnessing the next election.

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Wasky101: 9:22am On Mar 26
Mumusaphire:
Wike will just remove him as president
I still don't see how wike cld have removed atiku as president.
Can wike beat atiku at lobbying the senate over to his side, rmb that atiku and obj are d fathers of ghana must go politics.
Same atiku that obj couldn't instigate the house against.
To be honest that was atiku's biggest mistake in 2023

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Mumusaphire: 9:23am On Mar 26
Wasky101:

I still don't see how wike cld have removed atiku as president.
Can wike beat atiku at lobbying the senate over to his side, rmb that atiku and obj are d fathers of ghana must go politics.
Same atiku that obj couldn't instigate the house against.
To be honest that was atiku's biggest mistake in 2023
u don't know wike has judiciary power to himself

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