Wike’s Rainbow: Governor Dauda Lawal’s red line, By Emmanuel Ado
Governor Dauda Lawal’s decision to draw a red line against Wike’s so-called Rainbow Coalition—with the apparent support of his fellow APC governors—shows that Wike may finally have encountered the political resistance his accumulated confrontations have been building towards.
He knows what it means for 32 governors to speak with one voice, and he knows that they control political structures, influence delegates, shape party machinery and command substantial grassroots networks across their states that the president would not want to toy with.
As Governor Lawal has indicated, the matter will inevitably get to the President, and when it does, Wike may find himself asking Tinubu to choose between a political alliance built around him and the governors who control the political structures of their respective states.
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