By Ademola Adeleye
The Group of five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) (G5) governors who are standing against the chairman of the party, Iyorchai Ayu will be on a suicide mission if they support any other candidate apart from Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the PDP in the 2023 presidential election, Atiku’s camp has said.
Don Pedro Obaseki, a media consultant to Atiku Abubakar and also the director of research, strategy, and documentation of the PDP presidential campaign council while speaking on a Channels Television interview on Friday said such move will amount to “political suicide”.
The G5 is the group within PDP, which consist of five governors — Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), and Samuel Ortom (Benue).
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Obaseki said: “I truly believe that it would be foolhardy for any of them to endorse any other candidate other than Atiku Abubakar for the president of Nigeria. There are APC propagandists who are all over the place trying to distort the polity. I’m happy to hear him (referring to Wike) say nothing like that has happened.
“I have always told everybody that it is going to be political suicide, political hara-kiri for any of the five of them, particularly four of them who are going to run for elections, to declare themselves partyless, because once you openly endorse another party, you are invariably carrying out anti-party activities; it is only going to be met by expulsion.
“You cannot run for elections in Nigeria, except on the platform of a political party. My problem is that I don’t feel comfortable for Nyesom Wike to continue to play God. No man is God. No man can be God.
“It won’t hurt Atiku Abubakar. It does not distort the overriding goal. All the five of them in this present trajectory are overrated based on voting patterns.”
