{"id":96539,"date":"2022-06-29T18:01:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=96539"},"modified":"2022-06-29T18:01:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:01:13","slug":"wike-nigerias-next-president-after-atiku-lamido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/wike-nigerias-next-president-after-atiku-lamido\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike, Nigeria\u2019s next President after Atiku \u2013 Lamido"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2026Says Rivers state governor right to be angry after losing Presidential ticket<\/p>\n<p>Former Jigawa state governor and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Sule Lamido has named River state governor, Nyesom Wike \u201cthe natural heir\u201d to the Presidential seat after Atiku Abubakar, the party\u2019s candidate in the 2023 election.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThis is even as Lamido described the governor as an asset to the PDP and a leader who has etched his name in glory given his performance as chief executive of the oil-rich state.<\/p>\n<p>Lamido however blamed unnamed persons close to the governor for fuelling issues Wike has been responding to recently, stressing that the party must rescue the Rivers state governor and preserve him for the future.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe said: \u201cWike is a huge treasure for the PDP and one of the best materials. If we win (in 2023), he is the natural heir to the throne because he has the quality, the aura, the charm, the charisma and the age. I have been saying this: PDP is a family. There was a primary election and there were expectations but some of them were not met. So, it is natural for one to react. I can understand that. Governor Wike is somebody who is very forceful, who has done so well as a governor of PDP in his own state and who has been very supportive of the PDP. But again, he was made by the PDP. He is somebody we must make sure we preserve and we must rescue him from his own anger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the former Foreign Affairs Minister, whatever support Wike gives to PDP today is the party\u2019s right, adding that \u201cit is the party that made him\u201d and not the other way round.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe continued: \u201cWhatever support he is giving to PDP is PDP\u2019s right because a son does not say \u2018I am doing this for my father.\u2019 The party that made him is like a father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recall that a former governor of Niger state, Babangida Aliyu recently said that Wike lost the Vice Presidential nomination to Delta state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa because of the former\u2019s penchant for talking too much. But for Lamido, Wike is right to be angry, insisting however that he must give peace a chance in the overall interest of the party.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cHe is right to be angry for having not achieved his own personal interest or ambition but again that is what leadership entails. He is a party man and the party is not his enemy. The party is his home, is own group, his own support and therefore whatever might have been the failure of him to achieve his interest, should not be taken too seriously at a personal level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWike is now like as a boiling pot. There is so much anger in him because people around him will not allow him to see clearly. People around him who he thinks are his own friends are his biggest enemies. It is a fact and he will see it later on and that is why they are putting more logs under the fire. By now they should be withdrawing all the logs under the fire, to allow the pot to cool down.<\/p>\n<p>Lamido further counselled Governor Wike to be wary of those around him, noting that none of them has the capacity to make him realize his ambition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no one single person in Nigeria today who can say I can run on the platform of PDP and win election on his own, not even Atiku. It is the people of the PDP who will deliver such a person. Ask those around Wike, can they deliver their states to him? There are governors now using Wike but he is one of our best materials for the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, we need to make sure that we assist him to calm down and stop him from spilling over with anger because the pot is literally messing up its body by this unnecessary heat.<\/p>\n<p>At the right time, he will see the wisdom in what I am saying because we are all former governors. We know what we were in office and we know what we are out of office,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026Says Rivers state governor right to be angry after losing Presidential ticket Former Jigawa state governor and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Sule Lamido has named River&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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