2023: I’ve told Atiku to stop Dokpesi from spreading rumours — Wike

“We are trying as much as we can to build the party back and see that in 2023, PDP takes over governance.

“But, I have some suspicious that people like Raymond Dokpesi are not really sincere to the Peoples Democratic Party and I think, I’m convinced that Raymond Dokpesi appears to be working for APC.

“I don’t understand where Raymond Dokpesi gets this information, this rumour that governors travelled to Europe to decide who will be the presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate of PDP.

“I wonder why governors will travel to Europe to take such a decision.”

The governor said while he and his colleagues do not have anything against Dokpesi campaigning for the 2019 PDP presidential candidate and former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, but he should be circumspect and desist from causing mayhem in the party.

Wike said: “I’ve told Raymond Dokpesi that there is nothing wrong with you preaching for the candidature of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Waziri of Adamawa, a very experienced man, an intelligent man, a strategist.

“But don’t destroy other people because of this.

“Because when you destroy them, it will be difficult for PDP to win election in 2023.”

Wike implored Abubakar, who he described as a well known political strategist, to rein in Dokpesi from spreading dangerous rumours capable to polarising stakeholders in the party.

Governor Wike noted that in 2019, PDP governors, without the prompting of Dokpesi, rallied round Abubakar and will do so again if he picks the party’s presidential ticket.

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He said: “We supported Atiku Abubakar when he won (PDP presidential ticket), and even if he wins now, the governors will rally round him.

“But, when you destroy the governors and bring confusion, how will it work?”

The governor advised those who love the PDP and are desirous it wins the 2023 general elections to desist from spreading harmful and baseless information intended to cause strife and mistrust.

Governor Wike has also dismissed insinuation that PDP governors, particularly the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, want to usurp the function of National Working Committee in a bid to impose the party’s candidate in Osun State.

He explained that Governor Makinde, who is the only PDP governor in the South West, deserves to be consulted as it concerns the forthcoming governorship elections in Osun and Ekiti States.

He said: “The party should call the governor (Makinde) and say see what we are doing so that he will be carried along.”

Governor Wike said it would be politically wrong for people outside the South West geopolitical zone to determine what happens in Osun State without the contribution of Makinde.

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