A Special Adviser to the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Abubakar Atiku, Osita Chidoka, has reacted to the news of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, endorsing his Lagos State counterpart, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for a second term.
Chidoka described Wike’s endorsement of Sanwo-Olu as morally inappropriate.
He stated this on Tuesday during an interview with Channels TV’s Politics Today.
He said, “Governor Wike has the liberty to do most of the things he’s doing because he has no skin in the game.
“But it’s import to say that if he wants to support the presidential candidate of any party, he is free to do so but he has a moral responsibility not to be sitting on a PDP seat as a governor and be talking about other candidate.
“That moral burden is more on Wike than it’s on PDP to justify why he is taking that position for a party that has been good to him up to Local Government Chairman to being the governor of a state.”
Speaking on the PDP chairmanship tussle, Chidoka alleged that Wike will still not be satisfied if the party fields a National Chairman from the South.
He stated, “The discussion about whether the chairman of the party will leave has been a consistent conversation in PDP with Governor Wike.
“He wanted Makarfi to leave, he wanted Secondus to be chairman, Secondus became, he wanted him to leave at some point. He brought Sheriff as chairman of the PDP, he wanted him to leave and he went all the way to the Supreme Court.
“He brought Iyorchia Ayu as the chairman and now he wants him to leave. Even the next chairman is at risk if he continues to be the governor that at some point he may want the chairman to leave.”
