Following the crisis rocking the Peoples’
Democratic Party, PDP, and disagreement between the National Chairman of the
party, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, and governor of Rivers state Nyesom Wike, the
former has Tuesday revealed the reason presidential candidate of the party,
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, picked the governor of Delta state, Ifeanyi Okowa as his
running mate over the later.
Speaking during the Northern Christian
Youth Assembly Summit in Abuja, Ayu said
Atiku, picked Okowa as his running mate above his Rivers counterpart, Nyesom
Wike, because of humility and more excellent performance in office.
His words: “We looked around and we thought
we have to give not just a vice president that will assist him (Atiku) but we
did our homework to select a man who is highly educated, very humble, and who
has done very well as a governor in his home state.
“Okowa is the most qualified running mate.
It is on his own personal merit that he was selected by the party as the vice-presidential
candidate to Atiku Abubakar. I think Nigeria will be very lucky to have two
such people who are committed to development who are detribalised who believe
in uniting this country.”