The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday, said five governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are currently in talks with its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Spokesperson for the party’s Presidential Campaign Council, Kola Ologbondiyan, reportedly revealed this.
He also said the hope of the APC and its presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to benefit from the rift between Atiku and Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike will fail.
The chief spokesperson of the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign, Mr. Festus Keyamo (SAN), had earlier said that aggrieved PDP stakeholders will support Tinubu’s presidential bid.
He also said aside Wike and his allies, other governors in the PDP are not on the side of Atiku.
While responding to Keyamo’s claim, Ologbondiyan, immediate past National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, said: “It’s a dishonest statement”.
“We are not unaware of the wishes and roles of the APC and its presidential candidate in their hope to draw capital from the disagreements in our party.
“But they need not worry because no fewer than five of the governors elected on the platform of APC are in consultation with the PDP and its presidential candidate.”