A media consultant to Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Don Pedro Obaseki has averred that it will be “political suicide” if the G5 governors endorse any candidate outside the PDP.
Obaseki, director of research, strategy, and documentation of the PDP presidential campaign council, stated this on Friday during a television interview.
Obaseki said it would amount to “political suicide” for the five governors to endorse any candidate aside from Abubakar.
“I truly believe that it would be foolhardy for any of them to endorse any other candidate other than Atiku Abubakar for the president of Nigeria,” he said.
“There are APC propagandists who are all over the place trying to distort the polity. I’m happy to hear him (referring to Wike) say nothing like that has happened.
“I have always told everybody that it is going to be political suicide, political hara-kiri for any of the five of them, particularly four of them who are going to run for elections, to declare themselves partyless, because once you openly endorse another party, you are invariably carrying out anti-party activities; it is only going to be met by expulsion.
“You cannot run for elections in Nigeria, except on the platform of a political party.
“My problem is that I don’t feel comfortable for Nyesom Wike to continue to play God. No man is God. No man can be God.
“It won’t hurt Atiku Abubakar. It does not distort the overriding goal. All the five of them in this present trajectory are overrated based on voting patterns.”
