PORT HARCOURT/Nigeria: Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has berated the Prince Uche Secodus-led National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for alleged total incompetence, accusing it of deepening the cracks in the party ahead 2023.
Gov Wike particularly accused the NWC of sowing seeds of discord among PDP governors and other stakeholders thereby diminishing the party’s prospect to reclaiming the Nation’s Presidency come 2023.
The Governor spoke on an African Independent Television, AIT Live programme Monitored in Abuja on Friday.
The governor also warned that President Muhammadu Buhari’s integrity would be at stake if he failed to honour the invitation of the House of Representatives following the rising insecurity across the country.
The governor pointed out that it was regrettable that instead of capitalising on the inefficiency and misadministration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) five years in power, PDP’s NWC was deepening cracks in the party.
According to him, “PDP ought to have harvested from the inefficiency of the APC; from the misadministration of the APC. Ordinarily, that is what the opposition party ought to do. If you ask me, are Nigerians waiting for a change? Yes.
“If you ask me as a member of PDP, am ready to support PDP to takeover, yes. But, if you ask me currently as it is, is the leadership of the party willing for us to harvest this opportunity for a change, I will say no.”
Gov Wike lamented that instead of focusing on strategies on how to take advantage of the growing disenchantment against the APC government, the NWC of the PDP was busy creating crisis among governors using two former governors of Imo and Cross River states and a present Senator from Benue State.
According to the Gov, “An opposition party that ought to be united, to work, to take over the affairs of government because people are waiting for this opportunity, but the current leadership of NWC is not prepared for that, rather, what they have done is to constitute some people to sow a seed of discord among governors for their own selfish interest. And that will boomerang; that will consume them.”
The governor said he lacked the ability to defect to the APC or any other political party and would continue to fight for the survival of the PDP.
