Nyesom Wike

The Wike rebel gang's meeting in London promises to ruffle political permutations at home, writes Bolaji Adebiyi. It's like the rebellion in the Peoples ...

The task of getting the electorate to vote one way in the presidential ballot and vote the other way in the senatorial and federal constituency polls on the same spot may not be that easy except, of course, they have it all wrapped up. Wike, in particular, literarily had to go to war to return in 2019 as all the military and police formations in his state were deployed against him. It’s definitely a rough road ahead of them except they have the right political strategy to navigate the delicate forthcoming contest. Tinubu, who was the sixth governor, cautioned against the implication of the conspiracy and refused to go along with them. For instance, would they be able to vote for APC presidential candidate and at the same time switch allegiance to the PDP senatorial and federal constituency candidates? In that federal election, the PDP won the presidential election while the AC won all three senatorial seats and the 24 federal constituencies seats in the state. But a more appropriate analogy occurred during the 2011 presidential election in the same state. This forced the party to present Yomi Edu, thought to be a compromise candidate. But in practical politics, no serious-minded politician engages the process to make a point. But the majority of the gang trends away from the LP candidate on the ground that he lacks the concrete political structure on the ground to win a presidential fight across 36 states and Abuja as well as 774 local government councils. It’s like the rebellion in the Peoples Democratic Party has reached a point of no return. A day after the first dry Xmas in decades, the news broke of the trip of the G5 governors to London to meet.