By our reporter
All Progressives Congress (APC) has thrown its doors open to Rivers state Governor Nyesom Wike and his colleagues in the embattled ‘Integrity Group’ or G5 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors.
The group has faced off against the presidential candidate of PDP, Atiku Abubakar, over, among others, issues bordering on his retention of Iyorchia Ayu as National Chairman of the main opposition party.
The crisis has torn the party down the middle, with the PDP unsure of winning in the five states held by the governors. Aside Rivers, the states are Benue, Oyo, Abia and Enugu.
Apparently throwing APC’s gates open to the governors, spokesperson of Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Festus Keyamo (SAN), told The Punch that the governors are welcome to the ruling party.
The newspaper report stated that Keyamo frowned at the manner the aggrieved governors were treated by Atiku Abubakar.
Keyamo stressed that the governors were simply fighting to restore geo-political balancing in Nigeria.
Lauding Wike and his colleagues, the spokesman described the alleged injustice in the PDP as “far deeper and more fundamental than anyone can think.”
He added: “Regarding Wike, the PDP has treated him very badly and every right-thinking person can see that.
“Even from the opposite side, we can say that what is unjust is unjust.
“They may say that some people like us are not competent to speak on the internal affairs of that party.
“The truth of the matter is that the struggle of the G-5 governors is not based on the internal issues of the PDP alone. It is based on matters regarding geo-political balancing in the country.
“So, it goes beyond matters within the PDP. You will agree with me that these are grave matters of national concern.
“They may quickly point to our issue too that might have to do with religion.
“Let me tell you that in matters of rotation and balancing in the country, what has always existed and been of paramount importance is the geo-political balancing, not religious balancing.
“The injustice in the PDP is far deeper and more fundamental than anyone can think.
“So, the struggles of Wike and others are very genuine in our mind and we sympathize with them.”
