By Akinwale Kasali
Main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may lose one of its strongest voice.
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has threatened to dump the Party, if the PDP National Working Committee takes the party structures in Cross River State away from Prof. Ben Ayade, the Governor of Cross Rivers state, and hand them over to another person
Fani-Kayode, in a statement on Wednesday, warned that if the PDP structures are taken away from Governor Ayade, and the Cross River Governor leaves PDP, many people, including him, will leave.
The PDP chieftain wrote: “It would be a big mistake for the National Working Committee of the PDP to take the party structures in his state away from Ben Ayade, the Governor of Cross Rivers state, and hand them over to anyone else. If this is done and Ayade leaves the party, be rest assured that many of us will leave with him.
“You cannot, and must not, undermine a sitting Governor or attempt to humiliate him in his own state and before his people. Some of those that are advocating, and behind this nonsense, would never allow it to happen in their own states. A word is enough for the wise.
“No-one, no matter how big or powerful, should think that they own the PDP. If there is any attempt to undermine Ayade, it will spark off a crisis in the party that will split it right down the middle, and the consequences will not be limited to Cross Rivers state.”
