ACF Urges Wike to Resolve Difference with Atiku

* Says politicians in south should be wary of fake persons parading as northern leaders

Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt

Leader of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) in the South, Alhaji Musa Saidu, has appealed to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his other aggrieved governors to resolve their differences with the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, ahead of the presidential election.

Saidu said though Wike and his other G-5 members have every right to be aggrieved with the actions of any of his party leaders, he appealed to them to be open to reconciliation, saying the governor should not be seen or counted among those that pulled down a party he had spent so much energy, resources to build.
“Governor Nyesom Wike has a right to feel aggrieved and I commend him for making his feelings known not like some politicians that will pretend to be with you but they are not with you.

“Wike is a very strong willed person. I want the Wike issue to be settled peacefully. I also appeal to Wike to settle with his brother Alhaji Atiku. Forgiveness is one of the beauties of life . We thank Wike for the roads he has done for us,” he said.

The Arewa leader also advised politicians to be wary of some persons masquerading as representatives of northerners in the southern part of the country, coming to pledge northern support to them, describing them as fraudsters.

He said he was aware of a recent group that allegedly paid visit to Chief Abiye Sekibo, a chieftain of the PDP in Rivers State, saying they were not representatives of the northern community in the state.

“The northern community in Rivers State has a well-known leadership structure so we advise politicians to be wary of those who come to visit them in the name of the leadership of the northern community when they are not.

“Those who met with Chief Abiye Sekibo are not representative of northern community in the state. You will observe that they hid their names in several media reports. Chief Sekibo didn’t receive northerners in Rivers state, those that visited him do not represent us.

“There is a man going round politicians in different names that is spoiling our name. At one point he will call himself this and at another point he will call himself another name. Politicians should be wary of him. He does not represent us.”
Commenting on Atiku, Saidu: “In 2019, I mobilised for Atiku. At my convenience I will say if I am with him. I don’t need prompting from anyone.”