The presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said he remained open to reconciliation with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his allies over the crisis rocking the party.
The PDP candidate and Governor Wike have been at daggers drawn over the call for the party’s National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, to resign from office.
Mr Prank Shaibu, Special Assistant on Public Communications, to Atiku, who disclosed this to Vanguard yesterday, said the party had a rich history of accommodating divergent views.
He noted: “Our doors of reconciliation remain open, while we continue to sell our programmes of action.”
He also chided the recent comments made by Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State where he vowed not to support the PDP presidential candidate in 2023.
Shaibu said: “We are not a baba so pe party where only one man dictates what happens in the party and where only one man determines becomes the presidential candidate.
“As a political party, we have a rich history of accommodating divergent views and it is in the presence of such divergent views that you can have debates because it is only through debates that we, as a party, can provide broad-based solutions that can carry everyone along.
“That is why our doors of reconciliation remain open while we continue to sell our programmes of action, particularly our recovery plan of Nigeria by Team Atiku’Okowa.”
