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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and three of his allies – Samuel Ortom (Benue), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Seyi Makinde (Oyo) – are currently in Madrid, Spain.
It was gathered that the governors flew to Madrid, Spain, in the early hours of Saturday.
They left the country hours after Wike held a media chat where he fired salvo at the PDP National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, and insisted that he must resign for peace to reign.
He also boasted that the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, will not win the election if he and his allies, now known as G5, leave the party.
“The concession we have made is that we won’t leave the party. Assuming we say we will leave the party, do you know the effect of that? Whether you like it or not, if I leave the party today, PDP cannot win. If we are leaving, we are leaving with all our people, and that is the truth of the matter.
“However, let this man go, the zone that is supposed to produce the chairman, produce the chairman and you don’t want to make the concession. What concession have they made? Do you think that today, we the five governors say we are going to a party and there will still be PDP?” he had said.
According to reports, the governors left Port Harcourt International Airport late Friday night.
It was learnt that governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, will likely join the team in Madrid.
Wike and his allies will likely discuss the way forward on the crisis rocking the party while in Madrid.
Atiku had allegedly put his campaign on hold and sent fresh emissaries to Wike.
While apparently referring to the discussions he had with Atiku’s team, Wike had during his media chat said he had accepted Atiku but no one would make him change his mind on the resignation of Ayu.