Wike/Atiku feud: ‘Encouraging signs’ coming out of PortHarcourt – Governor Fintiri

Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri has disclosed that his reconciliatory mission to PortHarcourt on Thursday over rift between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), presidential flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar and Nyesom Wike was yielding positive results.

The governor said, he has capacity to reconcile the two prominent individuals, believing that before the 2023 general election, the political impasse would be resolved.

Fintiri said, politics is about discussions, give and take, while he expressed optimism that the genuine reconciliation has started and would be successful.

He said, as the Chairman of reconciliation Committee between Atiku and Wile, he is focused on ensuring that all the differences are resolved, assuring that the party will get over it soon, even as he said, “I am an embodiment of both men.”

He said, there are ‘encouraging signs’ from the Port Harcourt meeting, but acknowledged that the task was a difficult one.

Fintiri’s latest emissary of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to Rivers State, on Thursday was to resolve their differences.

Fintiri is the governor of Adamawa State, where Atiku Abubakar hails from and he interacted with journalists in Yola on Saturday on the progress being made.

“I’ve just returned from Rivers State where I met with my brother Governor Wike and I can assure you that we’ve started talking and very soon we’ll be crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s,” Fintiri said.

Wike, according to him, has contributed enormously to the growth of the PDP and wondered whether the Rivers State governor would allow all his contribution to the party go down the drain if he failed to support Atiku for the 2023 polls or dump the PDP for APC .

“Who are his friends in the APC? Are you telling me those who are now romancing with Wike love him? “ he asked.

“I can assure you that with God, the party will put its house in order before the 2023 elections.

“Even Wike knows he has been by far the biggest investor in the party. Can he now walk away from all of his investment?

“We recognise he loves his people and I can assure you that he will have a fair deal if it comes to that, just to put the crisis behind us.”