Former aide to ex president Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Reno Omokri has disclosed that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) biggest mistake in the 2023 general election was not giving Nyesom Wike the vice presidential slot.
Omokri made the disclosure on his X account (formerly Twitter) on Friday, December 8, 2023, adding that the PDP would have gathered more votes with him.
“The biggest mistake we made in the PDP during the #NigerianElections2023 was not giving Wike the vice Presidential slot of our party. By how many votes did we lose to the APC? Less than two million. If we had a running mate like Wike, we would have gotten that collectively from Rivers, Oyo, Abia, Enugu, and Benue with the G-5,” he stated.
Omokri also said Wike is ‘too big’ to be a follower, stressing that he is befitting for a president.
His words: “In politics, you do not do what you like to do. You do what you have to do. Under normal circumstances, an alpha personality like Wike, would be too assertive to be a follower. I would not even support it if all things were equal. Such a personality type is better suited for President and may be a headache to any President he deputises for.
“But the last election was not normal. And all things were certainly not equal. Not at all! So we should have taken some abnormal steps. Tinubu understood the game better than us. Is a Muslim-Muslim ticket normal? No. But he did what he had to do.”
Upon the declaration of Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), he appointed Nyesom Wike as the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
