Wike may quit as Atiku’s South-South campaign coordinator

There were indications yesterday that Rivers State governor,
Nyesom Wike, could quit as the South-South campaign coordinator for
former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), The Nation reports

Sources close to the governor told The Nation yesterday that he
was not happy because Atiku’s campaign committee was not carrying
him along in its activities.

The governor was said to have complained that some of the people
appointed to work with him were appointed without his
knowledge.

An aide of the governor told our reporter yesterday that he was
planning to communicate his decision to the presidential
candidate.

The National Chairman of PDP, Uche Secondus, had announced the
appointment of Wike as the South-South coordinator of Atiku’s
campaign a few days after the latter emerged the presidential
candidate of the party at its national convention in Port Harcourt
on October 6.

His appointment was announced simultaneously as that of Senate
President Bukola Saraki as the Director General of the Atiku
Abubakar Campaign Organisation while Sokoto State governor, Aminu
Tambuwal, was named as zonal coordinator for the Northwest.

Others who were also named as zonal coordinators include Gombe
State governor, Ibrahim Dankwambo (Northeast), Benue State
governor, Samuel Ortom (Northcentral) and Ebonyi State governor,
Dave Umahi (Southeast).

The immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, was
named as the coordinator for the Southwest.

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