“PDP should have done more give and take to carry aggrieved G-5 along” — Nnamani

Senator Chimaroke Nnamani has said it is sheer arrogance on the part of the Peoples Democratic Par­ty leadership to ignore Nyesom Wike and four other governors during the commencement of part’s presidential campaigns for the forthcoming 2023 elections.

The other four governors, who were conspicuously absent at the Atiku Abubakar/ Ifeanyi Okowa flag-off of presidential campaigns in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Monday, were Samuel Ortom (Benue), Ifeanyi Ug­wuanyi (Enugu), Seyi Makinde (Oyo) and Okezie Ikpeazu(Abia).

Nnamani, who said that it is discouraging to ignore the five governors as the party com­menced presidential campaigns for the forthcoming 2023 elections, noted that their supporters were also absent at the campaign.

The former governor of Enugu State frowned at the development, saying that the party’s leadership should have done more in a give and take manner to carry the aggrieved party faithful along.

He said: “Today, I am in total condemnation of the treatment of the five governors mostly from the Southern states within the PDP. The governors are our leaders and their humil­iation rubs off on all of us.”

The senator repre­senting Enugu East recalled that state governors were not treated with ignominy during his days.

He cautioned against erect­ing parallel structures in the five governors’ states, stressing that “politics is local and the folks from these affected states parad­ing with the PDP leadership will not deliver their polling booths without the governors.”