How PDP, Atiku Can Survive Nyesom Wike—Oladipo

<h4>How PDP&comma; Atiku Can Survive Nyesom Wike<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>The recent public second-term endorsement of the Lagos State Governor&comma; His Excellency&comma; Babajide Sanwo-Olu&comma; &lpar;APC&rpar;&comma; by the Rivers State Governor&comma; His Excellency&comma; Nyesom Wike&comma; &lpar;PDP&rpar;&comma; has really shown the way Governor Wike is going towards &&num;8211&semi; the oppositions&comma; mostly the ruling opposition party&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>All that Governor Wike has deliberately been doing&comma; and the above as the climax of the audacity&comma; are just like testing the water or the microphone for its appropriateness and suitability&period; But&comma; most importantly as a bait&comma; hence&comma; the suggested needful&comma; as follows-<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There is the need for all the internal organs of the PDP &&num;8211&semi; NWC&comma; BOT&comma; NEC&comma; CAUCUS&comma; PDP Governors Forum&comma; etc&comma; to meet for deliberations&comma; and appropriate decisions taken on the harmful political conducts of Governor Wike&comma; before any further extensive damage&comma; and for record purpose&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In this type of delicate situation&comma; you either do something right or wrong&period; So&comma; the need to be very careful in taking decision&comma; so that it does not boomerang&comma; like a white horse fighting a pig in the mud&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The body language and utterances of Governor Wike&comma; all along&comma; are mere baits- you eat the bait&comma; and fight with the pig&comma; by expelling Governor Wike for anti party activites &&num;8211&semi; but Governor Wike has earlier vowed not to leave the PDP&comma; and pledged his unflinching support for the presidential candidate&period; Hence&comma; his expulsion&comma; this time around&comma; will definitely aggravate the political equation&comma; to Wike&&num;8217&semi;s political advantage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The best thing&comma; therefore&comma; will be to leave things unperturbed and allow time to determine&comma; and overcome everything&comma; by letting Governor Wike to bury himself politically&comma; in committing more mistakes&comma; to the glaring and discontinuance of discerning minds&comma; with the resultant support&sol;sympathy from the general public&comma; including his hitherto admirers&comma; for PDP and the presidential candidate&comma; His Excellency&comma; Atiku Abubakar&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In essence&comma; when a crafty person is baiting you&comma; you must equally be deliberate to be a superior person in the act of craftiness&comma; in order to outwit&sol;outsmart him &&num;8211&semi; &&num;8220&semi;Ologbon kekere ati Ologbon nla&&num;8221&semi;- a man of little knowledge&sol;craftiness with a man of high intelligence&sol;wisdom&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In any case&comma; there is the need for a meeting&comma; deliberation&comma; resolution&comma; and official decision taken&comma; for public information&comma; record purpose&comma; and future reference&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nonetheless&comma; PDP should continue intensifying its campaign strategies&comma; towards the 2023 general elections&comma; against the unnecessary&sol;distracting Wike media war&comma; as already demonstrated in Uyo and Kaduna PDP presidential campaigns&comma; with the Edo state segment which held on Saturday&comma; October 22&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Oladipo Oluwole&comma; journalist&comma; public affairs analyst and former Information Director&comma; Ogun State Civil Service&comma; who contributed this piece&comma; can be reached via<&sol;strong><&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em><strong>oladipooluwole21&commat;gmail&period;com&period; 08033598528&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;