Atiku played a role in election of Obasanjo — Eze reminds Wike

Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party, nPDP, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has reminded Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, he is allegedly trying to destroy, was the brainchild of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

Eze said it was condemnable that Wike could publicly attack Atiku while boasting of his capacity to fight those he called his enemies.

Newspot reports that Wike, while addressing his followers and members of his faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the weekend, lambasted Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President and the presidential candidate of PDP in the 2023 general elections.

Wike, among other things, said that Nigerians rejected Atiku at the polls.

Eze said it was disappointing that someone could make such comments about Atiku, whom he described as a detribalised Nigerian and politician of class.

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“I read with misgiving the recent shocking statement credited to Wike at an event he organised for his outgone misguided lawmakers that Nigerians rejected former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

“That statement coming from somebody I see as one of the beneficiaries of the PDP political platform is an affront to Atiku, Nigeria’s foremost mobiliser, democrat, philanthropist, and detribalised politician.

“Maybe the Rivers-born [politician] is ignorant or seems to have forgotten that one of the fundamental characteristics of politics is that there is no permanent enemy but permanent interest,” Eze said in a statement he made available to the media on Monday.

He reminded Wike that the PDP he is working assiduously day and night to drag into extinction is the brainchild of Atiku Abubakar.

“As much as the FCT Minister may not know how the PDP was midwifed into existence prior to the 1999 general elections, the uncontroverted fact remains that Atiku was instrumental to the election of the first President under PDP, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo,” he said.