Akwa Ibom state governor, Udom Emmanuel is making a dying minute effort to reconcile the aggrieved G-5 governors of the Peoples Democratic Party with the presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and other members of the party.
Meanwhile, Some observers and stakeholders in PDP have described the attempt as belated and dead on arrival before commencement, noting that the governor knew that Wike would not listen to him.
According to others, the chairman, Presidential Campaign Council of the PDP is just trying to make an effort so it would be on record he tried to reconcile the aggrieved members, noting that it would be an exercise in futility.
Recall that the chairman of the G-5 governors, Nyesom Wike had vowed to endorse a presidential candidate outside the PDP’s candidate.
They vowed to return to participating in the party activities if Iyorchia Ayu the national chairman is removed from his position.
The PDP aggrieved governors dubbed G5 has been making unprecedented and loud moves to announce a candidate from the South that they would support during the 2023 polls.
They had publicly denounced their support to Atiku for his insistence to retain Iyorchia Ayu, the party’s national chairman from the North as the National Chairman of the party.
The pendulum is swinging between the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and that of the Labour party, Mr Peter Obi, but the guess on whom they would settle for remained bleak following their frolicking with Mr Tinubu recently and Peter Obi initially.
The governors, who include: Nyesom Wike of Rivers, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu, Samuel Ortom of Benue State were of the view that both the presidential candidate and the national chairman of the party should not come from the same zone and that for equity and fair play the national chairman should go so that a chairman from the south would emerge.
However, it remains to be seen who the G-5 governors would endorse for the 2023 presidential elections in the country.