{"id":70938,"date":"2022-08-26T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/wike-should-support-tinubu-or-obi-not-betrayer-atiku-apcs-okechukwu"},"modified":"2022-08-26T17:58:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:58:26","slug":"wike-should-support-tinubu-or-obi-not-betrayer-atiku-apcs-okechukwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/wike-should-support-tinubu-or-obi-not-betrayer-atiku-apcs-okechukwu","title":{"rendered":"Wike should support Tinubu or Obi, not \u2018betrayer\u2019 Atiku \u2013 APC\u2019s Okechukwu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Osita Okechukwu has warned Governor Nyesom Wike against supporting Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n

The former vice president defeated the Rivers helmsman at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary in May.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Friday, Okechukwu said Wike might lose out on Nigeria\u2019s political permutation if he backs Atiku, who \u201cbetrayed\u201d the South.<\/p>\n

Noting that Wike is \u201cenjoying the moment,\u201d the Voice of Nigeria (VON) Director-General advised him to spend his time abroad \u201cwith less distraction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Okechukwu described his meeting with the leading presidential candidates \u2013 Bola Tinubu of APC, Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP), and Atiku \u2013 as \u201cNollywood characteristic.\u201d<\/p>\n

He told the governor not to \u201cmake the mistake of rewarding Atiku, who betrayed the South and by extension Wike, who could have won the PDP presidential primary election.\u201d<\/p>\n

The politician recalled that Atiku cruised to victory when only northerners contested the PDP ticket in 2018 in Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n

Okechukwu accused the ex-VP of deliberately rubbishing \u201cthe rotation convention of president from north to south and south to north which governed the 4th Republic Nigeria from inception in 1999\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe grave danger of Wike making the gross mistake of going back to Atiku, who is now the new sheriff in-charge of PDP, is that he will definitely suffer from dagger\u2019s syndrome,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Okechukwu added that \u201cdagger\u2019s syndrome\u201d would be the fate of Wike if he dares to pull back his dagger, which has been drawn, advising him to support Tinubu or Obi.<\/p>\n

The VON DG suggested that whichever of the two would be a better choice as they are fellow Southerners.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Asiwaju, he will harvest from our (APC) spread. For Obi, his constituents and allies maybe more comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement insists patriots of both the North and South are not happy with \u201cthe betrayal of the rotation convention\u201d by the PDP flagbearer.<\/p>\n

Okechukwu declared that Atiku is not a unifier because such a person cannot breach the constitution of his political party and the federal character principle enunciated in Nigeria\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Osita Okechukwu has warned Governor Nyesom Wike against supporting Atiku Abubakar. The former vice president defeated the Rivers helmsman at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary in May. In a statement on Friday, Okechukwu said Wike might lose out on Nigeria\u2019s political permutation if he backs Atiku, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":70937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,34,316,254,4891,2178,945,454],"class_list":["post-70938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-apc","tag-atiku","tag-nigeria","tag-obi","tag-okechukwu","tag-tinubu","tag-wike"],"yoast_head":"\nWike should support Tinubu or Obi, not \u2018betrayer\u2019 Atiku \u2013 APC\u2019s Okechukwu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Osita Okechukwu has warned Governor Nyesom Wike against supporting Atiku Abub ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/wike-should-support-tinubu-or-obi-not-betrayer-atiku-apcs-okechukwu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wike should support Tinubu or Obi, not \u2018betrayer\u2019 Atiku \u2013 APC\u2019s Okechukwu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Osita Okechukwu has warned Governor Nyesom Wike against supporting Atiku Abub ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/wike-should-support-tinubu-or-obi-not-betrayer-atiku-apcs-okechukwu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-26T15:01:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-26T16:58:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_3-6308fb847269d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1401\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"999\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/wike-should-support-tinubu-or-obi-not-betrayer-atiku-apcs-okechukwu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/wike-should-support-tinubu-or-obi-not-betrayer-atiku-apcs-okechukwu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Wike should support Tinubu or Obi, not \u2018betrayer\u2019 Atiku \u2013 APC\u2019s Okechukwu\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-26T15:01:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-26T16:58:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/wike-should-support-tinubu-or-obi-not-betrayer-atiku-apcs-okechukwu\"},\"wordCount\":362,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/wike-should-support-tinubu-or-obi-not-betrayer-atiku-apcs-okechukwu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_3-6308fb847269d.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"APC\",\"Atiku\",\"Nigeria\",\"Obi\",\"Okechukwu\",\"Tinubu\",\"Wike\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/wike-should-support-tinubu-or-obi-not-betrayer-atiku-apcs-okechukwu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/wike-should-support-tinubu-or-obi-not-betrayer-atiku-apcs-okechukwu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/wike-should-support-tinubu-or-obi-not-betrayer-atiku-apcs-okechukwu\",\"name\":\"Wike should support Tinubu or Obi, not \u2018betrayer\u2019 Atiku \u2013 APC\u2019s Okechukwu - 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