2023: Atiku Will Win Without G-5 Governors, Says Gbolarumi

Former Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Hazeem Gbolarumi has predicted that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, will win the 2023 election without the G5 governors.

Gbolarumi said this on Tuesday during a press conference in Oyo on Tuesday.

The news conference was organised by a political group, the mandate group, ahead of the ‘Freedom March’ for Atiku scheduled to hold tomorrow (Wednesday).

The G5 governors include Nyesom Wike of Rivers, Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Samuel Ortom of Benue, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State.

The former Deputy Governor said that Atiku would emerge the next president of Nigeria, adding that the governors in the G5 group will not work against the PDP.

He explained that the walk was designed to rally support for the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

On his part, Chief Jumoke Akinjide, a former Minister of State for Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and member of the group, said that Atiku was the most competent among the presidential candidates in the country.

Speaking on Peter Obi’s endorsement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, she said that Obasanjo has a right to his opinion.

She said that Yorubas must reject ‘Emilokan’ mentality like Obasanjo, saying it was a crazy mentality that should be dismissed and rejected.

Akinjide said that Obasanjo endorsed Atiku in 2019, wondering what has changed in just four years to warrant the endorsement of Obi against the same man.