The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the main opposition party, has heard complaints that the conflict involving the party’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar and the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, is ripping the party apart.
They contend that if nothing is done to end the situation, the course of the party’s affairs is uncertain.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Wike and his G5 colleagues refused to support the rise of Atiku after the 2023 presidential election. In exchange for a person of southern descent, they have requested the resignation of the beleaguered former PDP chairman, Iyorchia Ayu.
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While it’s generally accepted that Wike worked for Tinubu and received a payment from the president with a ministerial appointment, the former Rivers Stae governor has refused to leave the PDP.
Despite repeated requests for his removal from the PDP, this platform learned that the leadership is split on the issue.
A two-time former governor from the North-West claimed that the party’s National Working Committee is split over Atiku and Wike in an interview with Newsmen on Friday.
The former governor, who requested anonymity, claimed that the two leaders are dividing the party with their statements and that if immediate action was not taken to resolve the situation, the party’s future might be even worse than it is now.
While it appears that Wike and his team worked against Atiku, he was also crucial to the victory of some national party officers, the speaker said. Consequently, while many disapproved of him for opposing the party, some remained loyal to him.
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The former governor said, “The two leaders (Atiku and Wike) are dividing the leadership of the party with their utterances, and this is not good for us as a party in opposition.
“The party is facing an uncertain future. As a leader of the party, I am shocked that Mr. Umar Damagum (the acting national chairman) is yet to present his plan for the party before the stakeholders. He is torn between his loyalty to Atiku and Wike. As things stand, things would only get worse because either Atiku or Wike must give way for the party to breathe.
“My stand is that the leadership of the party should stand its ground and deal with those who worked against the party. If this is not done, discipline will be difficult to enforce in the future.”
Timothy Osadolor, the PDP’s deputy national youth leader, has pushed for the expulsion of Wike from the party due to his anti-party actions.
He asserted that the party’s young wing shouldn’t continue to accommodate Wike since it doesn’t believe in sacred cows and that the party would function better without him.
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Osadolor told the platform, “I’m of the school of thought that former governor Wike should be expelled from the party until he purges himself of the anti-party spirit that has taken over him. For the youth wing of the party, we believe that discipline should be instilled in all members without exception when they err. There should be no sacred cows.
“We believe strongly that the party will stand to gain more when it shows it does not support anti-party activities from members, especially senior members of the party. Wike has shown he is against PDP, and therefore he should not claim to have her interest at heart.”
However, Ibrahim Tsauri, a former national secretary of the party, stated on his own that the party would wait for the Supreme Court’s ruling on the election appeal before deciding the next course of action.
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He said, “Like I always say, no single individual is big enough to kill the PDP, which is the only organised and truly national party in Nigeria. We will deal with these issues at the appropriate time.”
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