Ahead the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP National delegates Convention slated for next month, Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has accused the state governors elected on the party’s platform of deliberately working to bury the party.
The National Convention is expected to hold in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital between November 15 and 16.
But, Wike said he doesn’t care if the Convention holds or not insisting that the right thing should be done for the party to get out of its current crisis.
The minister who blamed the governors to be behind the leadership crisis rocking the party , said the governors have hijacked the party for their won selfish gain by blocking out other major stakeholders in the PDP.
Wike spoke amid accusations against him that he’s working with some other aggrieved members of the party to stop the Convention from holding. The minister has further sparked controversy after allegation that he’s trying to block Taminu Turaki, as the consensus candidate of 19 PDP Northern states to become the next National Chairman of the party.
The magazine has earlier reported that Governor Ahmad Fintiri of Adamawa state announced the choice of Turaki on Thursday, stating however that the party will not block other aspirants from contesting the position.
Wike however said he’s not the problem of the party as being alleged, saying the governors should be blamed for not doing the right thing to move the party forward, adding that the governors have blocked other key stakeholders from participating in the affairs of the party, asking, for instance why “the National Organising Secretary” and a former “governorship candidate”of the party was sidelined when Governor Fintiri and his ilks made the decision to pick Turaki, a former minister as the Consensus Candidate for the PDP National Chairmanship position.
“The way the governors are doing they will bury the party. Why do you exempt the PDP National Organising and a former governorship candidate” when choosing Turaki, he said.
“Are you saying because I’m not a governor, you want to hold a stakeholders meetings and you exempt me.”
He said the APC is not behind the problem facing the party as being alleged. “Is it APC that made them to take the wrong decision. What’s there, you mean I will sit down and some governors will make some decision and expect me to follow/ Follow who?
“You have to show leadership, you have to show commitment.”
He said it’s wrong for some people to continue to blame him for the problem in the party, saying the blame game has not achieved anything thing “till today”.
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