A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ilemona Onoja, has frowned at the party’s governors’ forum stance welcoming the intervention of President Bola Tinubu to resolve the dispute between Rivers governor, Sim Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike.
Chairman of the PDP governors forum and governor of Bauchi state, Bala Mohammed, had said the state chief executives are okay with President Tinubu intervening in the situation.
Loyalists of Wike and Fubara have been at loggerheads in Rivers state in the last few days.
Although both men are members of the PDP, Wike is a serving minister in the Tinubu-led administration, which is of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The former governor, who is the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, is said to still have a firm grip on his home state, which resulted in Governor Fubara revolting against his erstwhile political godfather.
Onoja noted that the stance of the PDP governors is strange and suggests they can’t handle internal matters of the party.
His words:
”The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has never been this bad. 13 governors. 100s of legislators. Countless elders. Several party organs.
”And yet, 13 governors are thanking an APC president – one with an active incentive to see that PDP doesn’t function well – for resolving the crisis between a governor and his godfather. No one within the party’s leadership could put together a dispute resolution mechanism.
”The party is desperately in need of visionary leadership. And will die if we do not get it soon.”
