PDP Youths Express Worry Over Atiku, Wike Disagreement

The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) youth wing has expressed concern over the conflict between Atiku Abubakar, the party’s presidential candidate, and Nwesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State.

In a press release obtained by BRANDNEWSDAY, Comrade Tochukwu Onah, secretary of the PDP youth wing in the diaspora, stated that the serious quiet within the PDP was alarming since there were many unanswered concerns that would hurt the party’s chances in the general elections of 2023.

Onah, who also serves as the President of the Nigerian Students Association in Australia, emphasized the necessity for the party leadership to facilitate an acceptable reconciliation between Atiku and Wike, who he claimed continued to be a cornerstone of the party even after the 2015 election debacle.

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“Gov Nyesom Wike has been the pillar of this our great party since after 2015 that the party was almost dead, he stood for the party with other patriots and made it a vibrant opposition but the treatment melted to him is uncalled for, unbecoming and the party leadership should as a matter of urgency make peace with him and reconcile other aggrieved party loyalists.

“We the PDP youth wing in diaspora condemned in totality that the treatment on Gov Nyesom Wike who risked his life, spent his resources and fought for the survival of this party and therefore call on the of leadership of our great party to do the needful to resolve the differences,” he said.

Sen. Iyocha Ayu, the national chairman of the PDP, was invited to resign by Onah, a well-known critic of the establishment. He claimed that it was unfair since the party chairman and the presidential candidate were both from Northern Nigeria.