Atiku: You kicked against zoning because of Peter Obi – Eze replies Wike

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Atiku: You kicked against zoning because of Peter Obi – Eze replies Wike

A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has reacted to utterance from Nyesom Wike, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Minister, wherein he alleged that Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, and others caused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to zone her 2023 Presidential ticket to the North against the party’s policy on zoning.

Eze said it behoves on him to set the records straight so as not to allow unsuspecting Nigerians be cajoled into believing Wike’s broad daylight lies from the pit of hell.

According to the APC chieftain, it was Wike who caused the PDP to throw open its 2023 presidential primaries and not either former Vice President Atiku Abubakar or Governor Bala Mohammed.

Eze said the latest claim by Wike means that Wike is just being economical with the truth.

It was reported that Wike had in a recent interview stated, “We have always done it North and South,” adding that “this unspoken agreement within the party was undermined.

“In making this beguiling statement, it skipped Wike’s memory that Nigerians of sane mind will ask him questions on how the ‘gentleman agreement’ of the PDP in respect of it’s zoning policy was undermined,” he added in a statement on Monday.

“Wike deliberately refused to mention in the interview that it was his dictatorial tendencies backed by his inordinate ambition to pick the PDP Presidential ticket, that led to the collapse of the party’s policy on zoning in 2022.

“It is sad and unfortunate that some people who are saying that Wike was right on PDP zoning have refused to know the truth because they are heavily benefitting from the former Rivers State Governor’s financial inducements.

“It is instructive to state categorically that Atiku Abubakar didn’t kick against zoning the PDP Presidential ticket to the South. What the former Vice President proposed at the PDP meeting was that if the party’s presidency should be zoned to the South, it must be to the South-East.