{"id":98585,"date":"2022-08-25T09:42:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T08:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=98585"},"modified":"2022-08-25T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T08:42:09","slug":"2023-atiku-travels-to-london-holds-secret-meeting-with-wike-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2023-atiku-travels-to-london-holds-secret-meeting-with-wike-others\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Atiku travels to London, holds secret meeting with Wike, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1742117709878844404\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has flown to the United Kingdom, in a bid to resolve his rift with the governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nAccording to sources close to Atiku, claim he is billed to meet with the Wike camp on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PDP presidential candidate headed for London Wednesday after arriving Paris yesterday. He is billed to meet with Wike tomorrow in an attempt to resolve the issues between them,\u201d a source said.<\/p>\n<p>Also, associates close to the PDP presidential candidate are not happy with the way in which Sule Lamido, former governor of Jigawa, and Babangida Aliyu, former governor of Niger, have criticised Wike and they want Abubakar to call them to order, another insider said.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Channels Television on Tuesday, Lamido said: \u201cWe should forget about Wike.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWike is an individual, I don\u2019t think because he is a governor there he has control and monopoly over the peoples of Rivers,\u201d the former Jigawa governor had said.<\/p>\n<p>Abubakar\u2019s desperate move to resolve the issues between him and Wike came a day after Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), met with the Rivers governor in Paris, France.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue, Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, and other PDP stalwarts loyal to the Rivers governor also attended the meeting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" 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>The presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has flown to the United Kingdom, in a bid to resolve his rift with the governor of Rivers state, Nyesom&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":96619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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