Forget 2027, You’ve No Space In PDP – Wike Taunts Atiku

BY SEGUN ADEBAYO – The war of words between Nigeria’s former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike is firing up with the Minister claiming that there is no more space for the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the party.

Frontally advising Wazirin Adamawa to forget his presidential ambition within the nation’s opposition party, the immediate past Governor of Rivers State said it will simply not happen again that Atiku can clinch the PDP ticket for the 2027 general election.

Wike, who spoke during a live media parley on Wednesday evening in Abuja, said having severally presented his blueprint to Nigerians and being serially rejected, the honourable thing for Atiku to do is to call it quit and take a permanent break from politics.

The Minister was reacting to recent comments by Atiku that had he won the 2023 elections as the PDP Presidential Candidate, things would have been done differently from President Bola Tinubu and Nigerians would not have been faced with the current level of suffering and hardship

According to Wike; “Did he (Atiku) not present it (blueprint) before Nigerians? Did Nigerians choose him? He is lobbying for another chance. The chance will not be there. In which party? How can we use one man for how many years?

“Look at America, I am sure you all did not support Trump saying he is this, he is a racist, he is that, we are crying, Americans were thinking about something else, thinking for the good of their own country made a decision.

“You presented your blueprint in 2023, Nigerians heard you clearly and said thank you, but it will not work, we will not support you. Criticisms do not mean the opposition is working”.

Already, many political commentaries are pointing to the fact that the Minister’s recent comments and seeming all-out attack against the former Vice President are further confirmation of the divided house which the PDP has unfortunately become ahead of the 2027 general election.

Insider sources claimed that the struggle for the soul of the opposition parties is continuing unabated between forces enjoying the backing of Wike and those allegedly loyal to Atiku and his associates.