2023: Why Ikpeazu, Ugwuanyi Must End Alliance With Wike – Ohanaeze Youths Warn

Governors Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State have been warned to immediately put an end to their romance with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State.

The Ohanaeze N’digbo Youth Council Worldwide advised that the duo’s alliance with the Rivers State Governor would only lead them to doom.

The Publisher Nigeria reports that the youth group gave the warning in a statement on Friday by its national president, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike.

While warning that the governors may regret their actions, Ohanaeze Youths president said Ikpeazu and Ugwuanyi would do themselves great injustice by endorsing a candidate that is not a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Okwu said: “Governor Ugwuanyi is an asset we will need in the senate as he has the experience needed to attract federal presence. However, should Wike lure them into endorsing another presidential candidate, it could backfire and cost him the ticket.

“We have it on good authority that the PDP national leadership has concluded plans not just to expel the governors from the party but to dissolve their state executives. This should not be taken for granted as it would totally destabilise them and come with huge and avoidable electoral loss.

“What happened to the AD in 2003 should be a lesson to the governors when the party endorsed then president Obasanjo of the PDP and the AD ended up losing every other position.”

He stated that Governor Wike was fighting a personal war, stressing that if Atiku Abubakar had chosen him as running mate, the aggrieved governors wouldn’t have been calling for the sack or removal of the PDP national chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu.

Okwu said: “Suffice it to say that Wike is only nursing personal anger and frustration against Atiku and the two South-East governors who are with him should think deeply about it.

“The Rivers governor is not running for election and stands to lose nothing, unlike the other governors who are on the ballot. They should immediately end their romance with Wike.”