Haliru Bello Muhammed, a former national chairman of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has attributed the ongoing rift between the
presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar and Governor Nyesom Wike of
Rivers State to the failure of the party’s Board of Trustees to act fast.
Wike and Atiku have been at loggerheads since the PDP
presidential primary in May.
The governor lost out to the ex-vice president and was also
snubbed as running mate, with Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, preferred.
Efforts by PDP stakeholders and elders to resolve the crisis
have since proved abortive.
On Friday, representatives of Atiku led by Governor Adamu
Fintiri of Adamawa State met with the representatives of Wike in Port Harcourt
in their move to broker peace between the two leaders of the PDP.
However, speaking during an interview on Channels TV’s
Politics Today, Muhammed said the Board of Trustees should have moved in fast
to appease Wike.
Muhammed said, “There has been a mistake on the side of the
Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees has the responsibility of moving in to
resolve issues between party members or between party and legislature; or
between legislature and president when we were in government; but this time,
because we don’t have a president, the Board of Trustees did not act as it
should.
“If the Board of Trustees had stepped in and strongly called
the party to order, this problem would not have reached the state. But even then,
it’s not too late. The party has set up a process in motion and we are working
on the problem and I believe that after the Port Harcourt meeting, there will
no longer be any problem.
“Wike will come back and join his brothers and sisters in
the leadership of the party and we will move ahead to win the election in 2023.
“The Board of Trustees should have moved in to assuage him
and bring him on the same wavelength with the nominee of the party but that was
not done immediately and Wike felt slighted and neglected and felt
unappreciated. I think that is what caused the whole problem.”
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