Atiku cancels campaign rally in Rivers

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has cancelled his campaign rally slated for this week in Rivers State.

This was disclosed via a statement issued on Monday by the Chairman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council in Rivers State, Sen. Lee Maeba.

Maeba stated that the rally was cancelled over security threats to the event.

He added that the “expected victory of Atiku Abubakar does not worth the blood of any Rivers man or woman.”

The Rivers State Government had earlier cancelled the approval for the use of Adokiye Amasiameka Stadium following an alleged collaboration between members of the PDP campaign council and those it claimed as the violent wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

The state government later approved the venue for the PDP presidential campaign rally in the state.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his allies, known as G5, have been at loggerheads with Atiku over his alleged refusal to prevail on the PDP National Chairman, Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, to resign after the former Vice President, a northerner, clinched the party’s presidential ticket in May 2022.

The aggrieved governors have insisted that it is unfair for the main opposition party to have the national chairman and presidential candidate from the northern region of the country ahead of the 2023 general election, stressing that Ayu should resign his position for justice, equity, and fairness in the PDP.

The Star