Nigeria, March 30 -- The Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, has countered Atiku Abubakar's claim that he (Atiku) picked Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election because a committee set up by the PDP rated him (Okowa) as its first choice for the position.

Atiku was the PDP presidential candidate in the 2023 election, which was won by Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The former vice-president contested in the 2023 presidential election with Mr Okowa, a former governor of Delta State, as his vice-presidential candidate.

During an interview on Untold Stories with Adesuwa, published on Wednesday, Atiku recalled that after losing in the 2019 presidential election, some PDP leaders blamed him for ...