Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has revealed that the PDP ticket would have been stronger had Atiku picked then Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike as his running mate.
Makinde made this revelation on Channels Television’s “Politics Today” program on Tuesday.
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“So, it was self-inflicted. There wouldn’t have been G5. The day after the convention, I went to my good friend, Governor (Ahmadu) Fintiri of Adamawa State and I said: ‘Look, make this a unity ticket, get Governor Wike, let us appeal to him, let him be on that ticket’.
“It would have been a stronger ticket to face the APC but all the people around our candidate rejected it. We met with him in London, he rejected it and he came back and said we’ve moved on.
“We’ve seen the result now and we don’t want to walk that path again.
“PDP should have still been in power up until now but some people walked out of Eagle Square. We knew who they were and we lost power at the federal level due to that action. The same thing repeated itself in 2023. We should pull back and say, look, this party remains the major hope of the common man.”
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