The Niger Delta Freedom
Volunteer Force (NDFVF), has accused the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike of
being responsible for the defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential
candidate, Atiku Abubakar during the just concluded presidential election.
The group claimed that the leadership style of Wike and PDP’s National
Chairman, Uche Secondus was responsible for Abubakar’s defeat.
NDFVF
stated this in a communiqué jointly signed by its President and the Secretary,
Harry Lawson and Preye Wilson and issued at the end of its emergency meeting in
Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
They also congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his re-election for
another four years.
NDFVF
further urged Abubakar to accept the defeat as the sincere outcome of the
exercise.
The
communique reads: “Atiku simply lost because Wike and Secondus hijacked the
party structure to themselves before the elections, former governor of Ogun
state and Director General of Atiku’s presidential campaign, Otunba Gbenga
Daniel was nowhere to be found close to him again. It was just impossible for
PDP to have won.
“Wike and Secondus in their selfishness sold out the party in Kano state where
they would have secured more votes, by insisting that former governor of the
State, Rabiu Kwankwaso take fifty five percent (55%) of the state PDP exco.
“This
decision infuriated another former governor of the State, Ibrahim Shekarau and
forced him out of the party to join the All Progressive Congress (APC), where
he delivered the state to President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC, producing the
highest votes from all states in the country.”
