Former Governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, has predicted doom and messier days ahead for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2023 elections if issues of contentions in the party are not resolved.
Fayose took to his official Twitter page to call on the leadership of the PDP to immediately resolve the crisis in the party and bring all aggrieved members on board so as to ensure the party does not get down in serious stormy waters.
In the tweet, Fayose said “I see more serious turbulence for PDP more than ever before. I have been silent all this while hoping that things will get better. I advise we do more than we are doing now to resolve this crisis as events in days/weeks ahead may likely get messier. I pray this advice is not ignored.”
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This development is coming in the midst of serious crisis rocking the opposition party over the outcome of the party’s presidential primary which saw Alhaji Atiku Abubakar emerging victorious as the candidate of the party.
Since his emergence, a faction led by Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, have consistently demanded the resignation of the National Chairman of the party, Iyiorchia Ayu.
Quest Times had reported that Wike alongside his counterparts in Benue, Enugu, Abia and Oyo States; Samuel Ortom, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Okezie Ikpeazu and Seyi Makinde, respectively, had consequently called for the resignation of Senator Ayu as the party’s National Chairman.
The five Southern governors alongside other southern chieftains in the party have lamented the structural injustice in the party, saying Ayu must resign to give way for a National Chairman of Southern extraction.
Wike and his allies vowed not to work for Atiku due to northern dominance in key positions in the party.
Efforts by stakeholders of the party to broker a truce among the warring parties have proved abortive as a series of meetings with Wike continued to hit the brick walls.