Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, on Saturday held a closed-door meeting with governorship candidates of the party in Abuja.
The meeting, which held at the former vice president’s private residence in Asokoro, also had his running mate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, in attendance.
Revealing details of the meeting via a tweet, Atiku said the meeting was aimed at mobilising Nigerians towards voting out the ruling All Progressives Congress at the 2023 general election.
He said;
“Today, I met with the governorship candidates of the PDP at my residence in Abuja. It was an opportunity for us to x-ray the state of the nation and how as one, we can mobilise Nigerians for the task of ousting the ruling party and commencing the rebuilding of Nigeria.”
Also in attendance were governorship candidates of Lagos, Ebonyi, Nassarawa, Sokoto, Kaduna, Zamfara, Delta, Plateau, Katsina, Lagos, Yobe, Niger, Kano, Jigawa, Benue, Borno and Kwara states.
Meanwhile, the PDP has continued to delay the announcement of its campaign council ahead of the polls.
The delay may not be unrelated with the ongoing crisis between Governor Nyesom Wike, Atiku and the PDP National Chairman, Iyorcia Ayu.
Wike and his camp have since demanded for the resignation of Ayu and for the position to be given to the South since the presidential candidate is from the North.
However, in an interview with BBC Hausa, Ayu had said:
“I am truly not bothered by the unnecessary controversy being generated. When we started PDP, these children were not around. They are children who do not know why we formed the party. We will not allow any individual to destabilise our party.”
Wike, in his response, described Ayu as a ‘greedy and arrogant’ man who was only after his interest, and not does not care if the party loses the 2023 polls.
This lingering crises has also been fingered as cause of the postponement of the National Executive Committee meeting earlier scheduled for Wednesday, August 10 and Thursday, August 11, 2022.
