Osita Chidoka, a special adviser to PDP presidential candidate Abubakar Atiku and the party’s Presidential Campaign Council, detailed Governor Nyesom Wike’s support for Babajide Sanwo-reelection. Olu’s Sanwo-Olu is the governor of Lagos state. In an interview with Channels TV’s Politics Today on Tuesday, Chidoka made this claim. Chidoka contends that Wike bears a greater share of the moral responsibility than the PDP and that the latter needs to evaluate his methods and practices. Governor Wike has the freedom to do the majority of what he’s doing since he has no stake in the outcome, he claimed.
But it’s important to note that while he is free to support the presidential candidate of any party, he has a moral obligation to refrain from speaking about other candidates while seated in a PDP governor’s seat.
“That moral weight is more on Wike than it is on PDP to explain why he is taking that position for a party that has been helpful to him up to his position as local government chairman to his current position as governor of a state,” he said.
Speaking about the PDP’s chairmanship struggle, Chidoka said that Wike’s demise portends a risk for the party’s next leader.
Chidoka claims that even if the party nominates a national chairperson from the South, Wike won’t be satisfied.
He said, “Governor Wike and I have consistently discussed whether the party chairman will resign in PDP meetings.
Iyorchia Ayu was appointed chairman by him, and now he wants him to resign. If he continues to serve as governor, even the next chairman could be in jeopardy of being asked to step down, he claimed.
He intended Secondus to become chairman, Makarfi to leave, and Secondus to become chairman at some point. He appointed Sheriff as the PDP’s chairman, demanded that he resign, and took the matter all the way to the Supreme Court.