Your political careers will end if you dump me – Atiku warns Wike, other G-5 govs

Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has warned the G5 governors that dumping him for Bola Ahmed Tinubu or Peter Obi will cost them their political future.

Led by Nyesom Wike, the G-5 governors are currently in the United Kingdom where they are expected to take a final decision on who to collectively support for the 2023 presidential election.

Speaking through one of his campaign spokesman, Senator Dino Melaye, Atiku affirmed that no envy or blackmail would detract him from his aspiration towards winning the presidency next February.

He therefore warned that “No blackmail, hate, or outrageous envy will stop Atiku. I pray it is not true (G-5 governors’ imminent endorsement of their preferred candidate). Attacking Atiku will cost them their political future.

“You don’t fight a man, who has done nothing to provoke you. Atiku’s only offence is that he won a presidential primary transparently and openly. No man should play God. It is too late to stop Atiku. They should have a re-think while they can. Atiku will be president because the people have decided.

“My advice to the G-5 is ‘don’t end your political career because of an inordinate ambition and capricious manifestation that will yield no result.’ If they take that step, it will be the last kick of a dying horse.”