The presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is poised to call the bluff of the Rivers State governor, Nyesome Wike over the protracted riff after the party’s primary election.
It is believed that Atiku has urged the party to constitute the Presidential Council Committee immediately as all efforts by the reconciliation committee set up to end the frosty relationship have hit the brick wall.
Atiku had appointed a seven-man team, led by Governor Fintiri of Adamawa State to hold discussions with Wike’s team, led by former Information Minister, Professor Jerry Gana. The two camps met in Port Harcourt over the weekend for their inaugural meeting.
But a source familiar with the frosty relationship between the two PDP leaders disclosed that the two camps have failed to shift grounds, a situation that may affect the reconciliation.
The source said: “The reconciliation meeting between Atiku and Wike remains a stalemate. From our findings, the Atiku camp will ignore Wike and go ahead to announce the Presidential Campaign Committee.
”Once that is done, the Wike camp too will declare where they are heading because the Atiku camp is insisting that the Wike camp cannot hold them to ransom. The situation now is that Wike’s camp is insisting that Ayu must go but the PDP chairman has resisted that move.”
