In the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the gloves are off. The two main camps in the PDP are set for a battle for the soul of the party before the November National Convention, fixed to hold in Ibadan, Oyo State.
A camp of the PDP, led by Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister, Mr. Nyesom Wike, after a late-night meeting on Monday, cited court orders and issued a six-point demand that the party hierarchy, the National Working Committee, NWC, must meet before the national convention.
In a quick counter, the party, has taken a hardline stance against former Governors Wike (Rivers), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Ayo Fayose (Ekiti), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) over their six-point ultimatum. The party declared that it will neither be blackmailed nor hijacked.
The clash came to a head in Abuja yesterday at the inauguration of the 2025 National Convention Organising Committee (main committee), where PDP National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Damagum; Bauchi State governor and chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Bala Mohammed; Chairman of the Convention Committee and Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri; and former Senate President and Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees, Senator Adolphus Wabara, represented by former Kaduna governor, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, openly confronted the threats to the party’s cohesion.
