Win Or Lose Team Atiku Plans Revenge Against Three G5 Governors

The Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign has put aside obstructions laid against it by Governor Nyesom Wike and his allies in the G5 with a determination to circumvent the rebel PDP governors towards achieving success in the Saturday election and thereafter serving a cold revenge.

Atiku put a resolve to his ambitions on Monday when he met with his campaign team in Rivers State in Abuja following difficulties in getting a campaign venue in the state. Campaign officials in the state led by Senator Lee Maeba had repeatedly alleged attacks they claimed were instigated by agents of the Wike government directed at Atiku Campaign leg-men in the state.

Campaign officials are, however, planning their retribution directed essentially against Wike and two of the governors, multiple sources in the top hierarchy of the Atiku campaign have revealed. The strategy is to be unveiled after this weekend’s election whatever way it goes for Atiku.

The Atiku team it was gathered are eying Rivers, Benue and Oyo States as targets after the presidential elections with the intention of working against the candidates of or supported by the three governors mostly in the governorship.

One source embedded with the Atiku top hierarchy disclosed that the Atiku machine is expected to move in immediately after the presidential elections to support third party candidates in the three states and where not, undermine the PDP candidates supported by the governors.

Campaign officials did not reveal the third party candidates to be supported in the three states as they kept the plan to the chest, but the decision to work against the three PDP candidates has been concluded.

A second option also in the works will be to undermine the governorship candidates if they scale through the first hurdle in the tribunals.

The national secretariat it is expected would sabotage the governorship candidates favoured by the G5 governors at the tribunal by denying them legal cover.

The G5 governors led by Wike took position against Atiku after he emerged as presidential candidate when he defeated the Rivers State governor in the presidential primary, a situation that was worsened after Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State was picked as running mate with the G5 walking out as revenge.