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Suspension looms for Wike, other G5 members over romance with Tinubu, APC.
The Peoples Democratic Party may use the hammer on some of its senior members in the coming weeks for defying it and instead fraternising with the ruling All Progressives Congress and President Bola Tinubu.
According to reliable sources, the main opposition party was considering dismissing important members of the G-5 governors elected on its platform who refused to back the PDP presidential nominee, Atiku Abubakar, in the February 25, 2024 presidential election.
The PDP was prepared to show the exit door to the immediate governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, who was the rebel governors’ arrowhead, as well as the immediate governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom.
Apart from not backing Atiku, the party regards Wike and Ortom’s present romance with Tinubu and the APC as significant anti-party action that will result in expulsion.
It is not clear yet what the PDP plans to do with the other members of the G-5 as Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State is serving his second term on the platform of the party and participated at the recent retreat of the party in Bauchi, while the immediate past governors of Abia and Enugu states, Okezie Ikpeazu and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, appear to be in political wilderness having lost their respective bids to go to the Senate. Ortom similarly failed in his bid to become a senator.
However, the five ex-governors recently paid a visit to the President at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in solidarity with Tinubu, despite the fact that the PDP presidential nominee, Atiku, is still fighting his victory in the Presidential Election Petition Court.
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