PDP Crisis: Wike, Not Atiku Should Apologize- Bwala

The Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala, has said the governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, should be the one to apologize to Nigerians and not Atiku Abubakar.

 

Newsonline reports that Bwala slammed Wike for throwing at the national leadership of the PDP what he can not accept in Rivers State.

 

Bwala added that the call for apology by Wike over Atiku’s statement showed he was carried away by the Relmadrid match he was watching while in Spain.

 

Wike on Monday, at the Portharcourt International Airport, after his outing at Spain along with Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Samuel Ortom of Benue State and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, had in reaction to Atiku’s statement at the Arewa Joint Interactive Session that the North does not need a Yoruba or Igbo president but a Northern, as ethnic bigotry.

 

Wike called on the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party and Atiku to apologize to Nigerians for his divisive comment at Arewa House in Kaduna on Friday.

 

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Reacting on Tuesday, while at Arise Television’s The Morning Show, Bwala said that the former vice president and 2019 presidential candidate of the PDP have nothing to apologize to Nigerians for, adding that it is Wike who is in the position to apologize to the party.

 

“I’m sure that when that comment was made Governor Wike was watching Real Madrid vs Barcelona. That was when that thing happened.

 

“And his Real Madrid team won but it does not mean that what he said was correct. He needs to apologize to the party first because if this thing would have happened in his state where a member of a party and stakeholder just goes to the air and starts talking, it would turn out as insubordination.

 

“One thing about politics is that the way you are demanding it at the state level you have to also obey it at the national level. As an aggrieved member of the party, what Wike will keep saying until he changes his mind will not come to me as a surprise or even to the Niger people. Because he has in recent times based on his decision been saying things that suggest he does not agree with what we’re doing.

 

“He had said things worse than this. I don’t think Atiku has anything to apologize to the Nigerian people because the context has been given by Paul Ibe, his media man. We have also responded to various questions from the press …I do not think there’s any basis for apology.”