Latest London Meeting: The Final Fall Of Nyesom Wike Imminent—Envoy

<h4>Latest London Meeting&colon; The Final Fall Of Nyesom Wike Imminent<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that a former United Nations Special Envoy to Middle East has predicted the final political fall of Rivers State governor&comma; Nyesom Wike&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a telephone conversation with OpenLife Saturday morning with specific instruction not to be named&comma; the Envoy lamented the growing trend in Nigeria’s opposition Peoples Democratic Party&comma; PDP&comma; saying that if not urgently checked&comma; the party’s performance in the 2023 general elections will be woeful&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He was particularly worried about the fall-out of the PDP’s presidential primaries in which &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Nyesom Wike has turned a rebel&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Reacting to the news making the rounds that governors Nyesom Wike&comma; Seyi Makinde and Samuel Ortom have&comma; yet again&comma; travelled to London on Friday to deliberate on their next move against PDP and Atiku&comma; the Envoy cautioned that Wike must slow down on his antagonism against the party because his political fall would be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;cataclysmic&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Wike ought to know when to soft pedal in a political war of this nature&period; He is behaving as if he is bigger than the party&period; Governor Okowa seems to be more intelligent than Wike&period; Okowa is calculative and he is winning more converts to the PDP everyday without being loquacious&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But Wike&comma; on the other hand&comma; is talking and boasting everyday as if he owns the party&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He is aggrieved&comma; no doubt&period; He has a good case&comma; no doubt&period; But he should know when to apply the brake otherwise&comma; he would just blow himself into political irrelevance sooner than expected&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;First&comma; the forces against him in Rivers State are mountainous&period; It is not every one that is comfortable with his choice of governorship candidate&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Therefore&comma; he has internal forces to contend with&period; He has Magnus Abe with his pool of followers to contend with&period; He has Rotimi Amaechi to contend with&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There are voters within and outside PDP who are aggrieved that governor Wike has wasted too much Rivers State resources on his personal presidential ambition at a time poverty pervades the neighbourhood across the communities in the State&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There are also the growing <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">OBIdient loyalists<&sol;a>&comma; in millions&comma; who are mostly youths with budding energy to stay the struggle 247&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So&comma; with all these contending forces&comma; how is Wike even sure that he would be able to deliver Rivers State votes this time to any candidate he decides to work for&quest;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is only in Rivers State that he has influence as a serving governor&period; As things stand in Rivers&comma; nothing is sure for Wike because he is not directly on the ballot&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Wike cannot influence votes outside Rivers State because his style is becoming boring and pedestrian&period; Why the brag<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Anti graft agencies are keeping watch on his financial recklessness&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The idea of travelling overseas almost every week with government resources because of his personal political ambition does not settle well with his followers&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He is so blind with ambition that he does not see it that way&period; That waste of resources would partly add to his down fall&period; People and voters will revolt against him at the poll and he would fall flat&period; He should be careful&comma;” the Envoy admonished&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Nyesom Wike had contested the 2023 PDP’s presidential ticket with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and he failed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Rivers State governor had anticipated being picked as Atiku’s running mate&period; That&comma; again&comma; failed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He felt aggrieved and mobilized some serving and ex PDP governors to embark on a revolt mission against Atiku and his running mate&comma; Delta State governor Ifeanyi Okowa&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Part of the strategies to ensure a bigger bargain in the 2023 political project has seen Wike romancing all shades of politicians including stalwarts in thr ruling All Progessives Congess&comma; APC and other political parties&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sources aver that his latest sojourn overseas would crareta another opportunity for Wike and his team to meet the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress&comma; Bola Ahmed Tinubu&comma; to conclude talks started weeks ago&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;