Thread by @DemolaRewaju

After looking, what will you do?

If Wike needs convention in PH to impose someone because he’ll book all hotels, how did he manage to ‘impose’ Secondus in Abuja in 2017?

If Tambuwal emerges, it’s because most party stakeholders want him as flagbearer, not Wike only.

https://twitter.com/OfficialS_O_G/status/1047455478106804224

As far back as 1993, Abiola was housing delegates in Niger and Abuja for SDP convention in Jos - hotel accomodation is the least of delegate problems when it comes to party primaries.

For #PDPConventionPHC, whoever emerges will emerge because everyone wants him as flagbearer.

And if anyone is imposed, to think that more popularised aspirants like Atiku or Saraki and party-based ones like Lamido and Makarfi will keep quiet is foolish.

If anyone is imposed, the party base will revolt and we will see it happen - so I’m not bothered honestly.

The remarkable turnaround of Saraki’s political profile - for someone who just a few months ago was still in APC is a pointer to the fact that anyone can be transformed or turned around, especially once others presidential aspirants fade into the background.

Ignore Deji.

It is political season and everyone wants to have an opinion to stay relevant - hence the conspiracy theories.

If any aspirant is afraid of Wike’s clout, they should say so openly - rather than courting him privately and attacking him by proxy in the public space.

Wike imposed Secondus.

And the party didn’t revolt - and the party isn’t factionalised: it’s clear so many people lack political understanding.

Did he impose Secondus in PH? Why does he then need a convention in PH to then impose?

Your MCM is obsessed with attention 🤦🏽‍♂️

Wike is just one man and he will have his say (nobody can even shut him up).

The majority of party delegates will have their way though and whoever emerges in a free and fair process will have our support against Buhari - how anyone even thinks Tambuwal is weak is befuddling.

This is @DattiBAhmed, a presidential aspirant in PDP, breaking down anti-corruption better than Buhari ever can - many do not even know him but he is in the race and if the horsetrading favours him, he may emerge.

And we will support him against Buhari - same with all aspirants.

To say Tambuwal is the weakest of all PDP aspirants is blatant falsehood which calls into question not only the naïveté of your conspiracy theorist but also the gross ignorance of those of you plugged into his rants and listening.

Apologies, but where do you put Bafarawa?

Most important factor in the 2019 configuration is the party - put any of the PDP aspirants on the platform of any party other than PDP and they will lose like Omisore.

Put any of them on the PDP platform though and he immediately becomes the rallying figure like Adeleke.

Some of us understand the fact that despite all the public noise, anybody can emerge after Saturday from #PDPConventionPHC - and we will have to scale the persona nationally, as Buhari was - so we monitor them.

Where Buhari had only 2 months, we now have more than 4 months.

This is my preferred candidate by the way - Alhaji Sule Lamido @TheBamainaBoy - there is none of the 13 PDP aspirants in the PDP platform that is not better than Buhari by any standard.

(I should do a video thread of this series before #PDPConventionPHC if I can find the time.)