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Oyo state governor, Seyi Makinde on Tuesday said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) could have won the 2023 presidential election if it had fielded former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike as Vice- Presidential candidate to the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

Atiku won the presidential primary by 371 votes to defeat Wike , who polled 237 votes, while a former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, scored 70 votes.

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State got 38 votes; Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, scored 20 votes; a former Senate President, Pius Anyim, got 14 votes, while a former President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Sam Ohuabunwa, polled only one vote.

Speaking on Channels Television, Makinde said shortly after the primary, he approached Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa state and proposed that the party should field Wike as running mate to Atiku.

He said Atiku rejected all the proposals made by the G-5 and chose Ifeanyi Okowa, immediate past Delta State governor as his running mate.

Makinde said the party must not repeat that mistake in the 2027 general elections.

“The day after the convention, I went to my good friend, Governor Fintiri and I said look, make this a unity ticket. Let us appeal to Governor Wike to be on the ticket. It would have been a stronger ticket to face the PDP. But all the people around our candidate (Atiku) rejected it”.

“We met with him in London, all the things we discussed there, he rejected it and he came back and said ‘we have moved on. All these children, where were they when we were forming PDP? And we have seen the result now and we don’t want to walk that path again”.

https://thescrutinyng.com/2023-atiku-wike-would-have-been-a-stronger-ticket-for-pdp-against-apc-makinde/

Wike is a man of honor.

He will never betray his own.

Atiku is the ultimate betrayer.

Makinde a nwikes boy

Politics is personal interest is never in the interest of the people that's why they don't resign when they have failed

They Play, Which Wike?How many States can he win na.Apart from Rivers State which other State can he Win.

Thunder where are you?

Trust Wike at your own risk





Once you put it inside and you hear "ouch!" just buy the shoe na your size fa 🤷🤷
You no know wetin God do for you ohh 🤷🤷😂😂🤣

IPOB terrorists will believe otherwise because wike didn't their packaged fraud PETHIEF OBI eventually.

The only sin of WIKE is that he didn't this fraud below

And his sin up North is that he didn't Atiku. To make it worse,he became the first southerner to become FCT minister

Obi - El rufai 2027

moodyguy:
Thunder where are you?

I'm warming up

fiercehillz:
Obi - El rufai 2027

trust el Rufai at your own risk

Mumu wey dey watch film as dem install Sharia for Ibadan. TUFIAKWA

So that Wike will impeach and topple him in one month.

Hmmm

At last the hypocrites are coming out one after the other….Nigeria is gone….opposition working for incumbent and making it a one party system…where multi party system failed so bac…Nigeris is going 20 years backward and all will suffer for it

Mrchippychappy:
Mumu wey dey watch film as dem install Sharia for Ibadan. TUFIAKWA

Na Ignorance of you Igbo Osu Christians dey entertain us here

Thats a good one.

It would have been a formidable team if Wike was selected as VP candidate

Atiku is pdp life presidential Aspirant life patron

fergie001:
So that Wike will impeach and topple him in one month.

Now he has toppled himself.

Hahaha, Makinde is just making jokes. The opposition from hell couldn't even win their own states.

Na so bad things dey happen

Wike and Atiku would have been a good combination but their ego didn't allow it.

Makinde is making sense here

Wike Has No Voice OutSide Rivers State,
Wike Cannot Dictates What Happens in
Kano
Lagos
Ekiti
Bayelsa
Cross Rivers
Akwa Ibom
Delta
Ondo
Kogi
Kaduna
Sokoto
Bauchi
Jos
Taraba
Gombe
Adamawa
Kastina
Jigsaw
Zamfara
Bornu
Yobe

Seyi is just showing solidarity to Wike

Atiku again

KennethOkonkwo:

Na Ignorance of you Igbo Osu Christians dey entertain us here

all this newly recruited touts and thugs abi agbero ,you must include Igbo in your comment to receive payment.yarimo when did you recruit this one

It would have given the party an edge but na Wike go sniff out life from Atiku

fiercehillz:
Obi - El rufai 2027

Total Failures!
Has your El- Rufai paid back the Humongous 1.37NBILLIONS the Court Ordered him to pay because his govt could not for it?
Or Has he now Submitted to the Kaduna State on the Debt Profile left behind in that State or because he has been going up and down,you now think the Northerners don't know that ma
any of these Former Governors and Ministers have Failed Woefully Or
What have they Achieved for the Youths or the Masses of the North - when they were in saddle?

GSM should that prior to the primary election, Wike vowed never to be a vice president to anyone 🤔. That he will never be a second citizen. 😉

Everyone was tired of clueless Buhari and his APC thieves. We were in PH waiting for the news of Wike to be announced as the V.P candidate. We were ready. We knew the election would be over within hours because that was a winning team.
Sadly the news came negative. Atiku Abubakar have made a wrong choice, a political blunder and have lost the presidency. The thin line between Atiku and Aso Villa has been cut off by that singular act because he can not win election with someone like Okowa who is a paper weight politician.
Atikus arrogance cost him the chances of being Mr President today. He lost it due to arrogance, same way Kwankwaso lost to become president after Peter Obi, had he agreed to deputise him, but NO.....the Hausa/Fulani tribes are very proud and arrogant. Atiku can be president in his next world, not this one again, unfortunately.

It Is Fixed. Tinubu Is OTP. One Term President

Sadly, this is true!

God already destined Tinubu to be president, so stubbornness blinded Atiku