PHOTOS: Wike’s men abandon Atiku one week to campaign kick-off

Rising from a  marathon meeting on Wednesday, allies of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State announced that they were pulling out of the campaign council of Atiku Abubakar, Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The politicians, who met at Wike’s Port Harcourt residence, said Senator Iyoricha Ayu, the party’s national chairman, would step down before there could be a way forward.

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This comes exactly a week to the kick off of the campaign for the 2023 elections.