Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a PDP presidential candidate, was seen exchanging pleasantries with Mr. Peter Obi, a Labour Party presidential candidate, earlier today at the funeral of Governor Seriake Dickson’s mother in Bayelsa State.
Seyi Makinde, the governor of Oyo State, who was also in Bayelsa to express his condolences to Governor Seriake Dickson over the passing of his mother, was seen seated next to Atiku.
Recall Before the PDP’s primary, Peter Obi had left the party to join the Labour Party, where he later became the party’s presidential candidate and finished third in the February 25 election.
More surprising to see, was Governor Seyi Makinde, a member of the G-5 Governors who worked against the ambition of Atiku in the just concluded presidential election.
Seyi Makinde and the rest of the G-5 Governors had demanded a power shift to the South, a demand which seems to have fallen on deaf ears, as it was met with stiff resistance by the leadership of the PDP.
Many believed the defection of Peter Obi to the Labour Party and Seyi Makinde’s G-5 membership dented Atiku’s ambition of becoming Nigeria’s president in 2023, much more than the flaws of INEC’s BVAS.