A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former Presidential aide Reno Omokri has advised the leadership of PDP to consider convincing the former Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, to return to the party.
Omokri made this statement on Wednesday on Twitter when the news of the London rendezvous of the G5 Governors broke.
Issuing advice to PDP leaders, including the presidential flagbearer Atiku Abubakar, his running mate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, and the party’s National Chairman, Ayu, and others, Omokri urged them to do all they could to hold on to Wike, who has been the force behind the aggrieved Governors.
“My dear Peoples Democratic Party. Let us do all we can to keep Wike in the PDP. But if, despite our best efforts, he endorses outside the party, let us extend a right hand of fellowship to Rotimi Amaechi. PDP created Amaechi. And we know he can’t coexist with Wike,” Omokri tweeted.
Sources said the G5 landed in London on Tuesday to have a crucial meeting where they would either endorse Bola Tinubu or Peter Obi, the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Labour Party respectively.
The five governors are Nyesom Wike of Rivers, Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Samuel Ortom of Benue, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu who have been at loggerheads with the leadership of the PDP, and calling for the resignation of their National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu.
