Festus Keyamo, the spokesman for the Tinubu-Shettima presidential campaign council, spoke on Thursday about the meeting between the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, and the G-5 governors.
Keyamo, who did not reveal the details of their meeting on Tuesday in London, United Kingdom, blamed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leadership for the party’s woes.
In an interview with Punch, the spokesman for the APC presidential campaign council said he knew that collapsing the PDP’s zoning process, which saw Atiku Abubakar emerge as the party’s flagbearer, would lead to a crisis within the party.
He said;
The PDP has turned to a caricature that people now laugh at. We always knew the PDP implosion will come even before the primaries. We were waiting for it to happen.
When it was very obvious to zone the presidency to the South, the PDP was too scared to take the bold step. Whereas, this same thing could have happened to us if the Northern APC governors had not risen to the challenge boldly and zoned the presidency to the South.
Even when the ruling party was dilly-dallying on the issue, the governors took the bull by the horn and zoned it to save the APC from this kind of implosion the PDP is having. This is what they should have done. They actually met and agreed the presidency should come to the South in Asaba but (Delta State governor, Ifeanyi) Okowa stabbed them in the back.
There are indications that the governors will arrive in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, today (Friday).