Fayose Raises Alarm, Says ‘The Crisis In PDP Likely To Get Messier In Coming Days’

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There are indications that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may have yet to witness the worst scenario of the crisis rocking its soul as one of its chieftains, a former governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose has sounded an alarm that the situation in the party is set to get messier in the coming days.

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.

The New Diplomat reports that the PDP has been hit by crisis for a while with the crisis taking a turn for the worse after the conclusion of the PDP’s Presidential Primary election which saw Alhaji Atiku Abubakar clinching the mantle as the party’s flagbearer in the forthcoming general election.

Since the election, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state, who was also an aspirant fell apart from the leadership of the party.

The New Diplomat 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 Iyorchia 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.

Reacting to the crisis, Fayose on Sunday said the PDP might be heading for greater danger if the leadership of the party fails to step in and salvage the party from more turbulent times.

Fayose tweeted, “I see more serious turbulence for PDP 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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