Wike goes ballistic, accuses Atiku as a problem in PDP

Governor of Rivers State Nyesom Ezenwo Wike and runner-up in the presidential primary election of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) has lambasted Atiku Waziri Abubakar for being a problem to the party.

It would be recalled that Wike lost the primary election to Atiku by 237 votes to 371. Without a doubt, that loss, which he never expected, hit him hard. A few weeks later, he lost the chance to be Atiku’s running mate. That completely unhinged him and, frustrated, he has been in pain since then.

It was gathered that Wike went ballistic last Friday over Waziri whom he identified as “one of the problems” in the party.

Reacting in a live program with AIT, Channels, TVC, and NTA, he wailed that “since 1999, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had not won Yobe State but one of the problem people is from Yobe. So, what will he give the party?”

Wike said that Waziri had not brought anything to the table, only to demand his immediate removal. “You have not won your state and you are questioning me that have full support from my state.

“He is going about saying ‘we will deal with him, we will sanction him’. Meanwhile, we are zero in his state…what will he bring to the table? All they have been doing is name-calling, which they will do without me. But you can’t do without me in my state.”

Wike, who may know the tradition of Rivers politics, surely knows not that of Yobe or surrounding geographical areas and the history behind them.