Former Jigawa State governor Sule Lamido has referred to as an emergency assembly with high PDP stakeholders from Jigawa and Kano, heightening issues over the worsening inside disaster shaking the opposition social gathering throughout the nation.
The assembly, which held behind closed doorways at Lamido’s workplace in Kano, got here shortly after the Discussion board of Former PDP Native Authorities Chairmen in Jigawa urged him to think about leaving the social gathering if the present state of affairs persists.
The Discussion board mentioned the PDP was being consumed by what it described as a “deepening inside disaster,” which it blamed on failures within the social gathering’s nationwide management.
“We’re apprehensive in regards to the route the PDP is heading,” the Discussion board said. “The nationwide management has not solely sidelined Sule Lamido however has additionally blocked him from contesting for the place of Nationwide Chairman. This type of management model is tearing the social gathering aside.”
Members of the Discussion board argued that longstanding divisions, mistrust, and unresolved disputes have weakened the PDP’s construction throughout the nation, posing a severe risk to its possibilities in future elections.
Their warning comes at a time when stress inside the PDP is already excessive, following controversial congresses and a heated confrontation final week between Bauchi State governor Bala Mohammed and FCT Minister Nyesom Wike on the social gathering’s nationwide secretariat in Abuja.
As disputes proceed to unfold from Jigawa to the nationwide stage, many inside the social gathering imagine the management should act rapidly.
“The social gathering wants pressing intervention,” a PDP supply mentioned. “If one thing will not be accomplished now, we might even see a significant shift that can reshape the PDP.”
For a lot of observers, the end result of Lamido’s emergency assembly might decide the following chapter of the social gathering’s political route, each in Jigawa and throughout Nigeria.
