Tag: G-5 Governors

Tinubu, PDP G-5 Governors holds parley in Abuja

Aminu Imam

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday held a meeting with members of the defunct ‘G-5 Governors’ at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The group, made up of Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde; former Governors Nyesom Wike (Rivers); Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia); Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) and Samuel Ortom (Benue) are all members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The group is considered to have been friendly with President Tinubu, and contributed to his electoral victory in February. Although the reason for the visit is yet to be known, it is believed Makinde and the former…

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PDP crisis: G-5 Govs push for mini convention to replace Ayu, others

Aminu Imam

There are strong indications that the group of five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors (G-5) may have been mobilising stakeholders to push for a mini-convention anytime soon. The move, it was gathered, is aimed at seeing to the final exit of Dr. Iyorchia Ayu as PDP National Chairman. However, some Ayu loyalists have countered that no such convention can hold while the suspended chairman’s case is still pending before the court. It was further learnt that the envisaged mini convention would be an avenue to rejig the party’s National Working Committee…

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2023: ‘G-5 Governors never agreed to support Peter Obi’ – Wike

Aminu Imam

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has revealed that the disgruntled governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) refused to support the Labour Party (LP) candidate, Peter Obi, in the recently concluded presidential election. Wike announced this during a live media chat yesterday in Port Harcourt, the State capital. According to the Rivers State governor, the G-5 governors only reached an agreement and devised strategies to ensure the election of a Southern President. According to him, “There was never a time the integrity Group met and say it must be…

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Insecurity: “We can’t leave our house to armed robbers” – Wike attacks Atiku

Aminu Imam

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said he is not the leader of the aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), popularly known as G5. Speaking in a recent interview on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Wike named the Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom as leader of the G5. “We can’t leave our house to armed robbers, we can’t do that. No way. And we won’t leave this party”, he said. The PDP has been enmeshed in crisis after the party’s national convention in May 2022 where former Vice-President…

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2023: “Make yourself president if you want to stop me” – Atiku to G-5 Govs.

Aminu Imam

The squabble between the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and the five aggrieved PDP governors, popularly known as G-5 governors has intensified, as Atiku appears to have taken the battle to them. The aggrieved governors: Wike (Rivers), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), had since fallen out with Atiku over his alleged refusal to prevail on the party’s National Chairman, Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, to resign after the former vice President, who is also from the North, clinched the…

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2023: “Five Govs. not asking for too much, Ayu should resign” – CUPP

Aminu Imam

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), yesterday said the G-5 Governors in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), also known as the Integrity Group, were not demanding too much by calling for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, as allegedly agreed in the event of a northerner emerged as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 elections. CUPP, in an issued statement by its spokesman, Ikenga Ugochinyere, accused Ayu of escalating the crisis rocking the opposition party, lamenting that his continued stay in office was creating…

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2023: “I’m an elephant; I can’t be taken by surprise” – Atiku to G5 Govs.

Aminu Imam

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has described himself as an elephant, saying he cannot be taken by surprise by the G-5 governors of the PDP. Atiku said that anyone that plans to stop him from achieving his political ambition should first make himself the president of Nigeria. The former vice-president equally noted that he was not perturbed by plots of five aggrieved governors, popularly known as G-5 governors, to endorse presidential candidates of their choice. He stated that he is an elephant that…

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