The Northern Awareness Movement (NAM) has berated the unrelenting verbal attacks on the person of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, describing his attacks as a smear campaign against the entire Northern region of the country.

 

Its coordinator, Muhammed Inuwa, in a statement issued Thursday, while reacting to the uncontrollable attacks of Wike against Atiku, said that it has become imperative to call Wike to order and call his bluff before he sets the entire country on fire with his verbal diarrhea.

The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) started as a result of Wike’s failure to secure the party’s presidential ticket.

 

However, efforts to pacify Wike’s camp have since been met with stiff resistance.

 

Inuwa noted that since all attempts to pacify Wike and his camp have not been reciprocated, it was now important to note that there is an undertone to the whole crisis.

 

The group made it clear that other sister Arewa groups would not hesitate to treat Wike and his cohorts as an enemy of the North, if they persist with their constant attacks on the region.

“We have gotten credible intelligence that the entire crisis is targeted at a particular section of the country, which is the North.

 

“We have it on good authority and evidence abounds with facts and figures at various times that Wike and his men have gone to press to disparage the North.

 

“We hereby conclude, without any iota of doubt, that Wike and his group have drawn the battle line with the North. The Northern Awareness Movement hereby calls on every well-meaning and patriotic citizen of this country to prevail on Wike to put a stop to any attempt to undermine the North,” Inuwa said.