Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to Apologise to Nigerians following a controversial remarks of its presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar.
Speaking in Port Harcourt on Monday shortly after arriving from Spain, Wike said while he doubted the possibility of Atiku making such a statement at a critical time of the nation’s history, such disposition of the presidential candidate would justify his fight for equity, justice and fairness in the PDP.
Atiku had said: “I know the whole of this country. I have built bridges across this country. I think what the average northerner needs is somebody who is from the north, who also understands the other parts of Nigeria, and who has been able to build bridges across the rest of the country.
He insisted that the party must urgently address the issue and appeal to Nigerians otherwise people would begin to see the party as one that lacked justice and equity.
Former Deputy Governor Of the Central Bank of Nigeria Kingsley Moghalu had said Atiku saying what the north needed was a Northerner to be President was a direct appeal to divisive
ethnic sentiment.
