Rivers: PDP Govs Move Against Wike As Damagum Shifts NWC Meeting
Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum are up in arms against the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Party insisting that Governor Siminalayi Fubara should be recognized as the leader of PDP in Rivers State.
The development, it was gathered, ultimately forced the acting National Chairman of the main opposition party, Ambassador Umar Damagum, to shift the NWC meeting earlier scheduled for Wednesday, September 5, 2024 to next week.
Insider sources said the PDP Governors made it clear that there was a limit to tolerance and were no longer going to sit and watch Wike dominate and pull down the party for his own selfish interest.
The PDP Governors on August 24, collectively announced their support for Governor Fubara and urged the NWC to recognise the Rivers Governor as the party leader in the state as well as transfer the control of the party structure to him.
However, in his response, Wike threatened that he would instigate crisis in any of the PDP Governors’ state if they dare try to interfere in the PDP structures in Rivers State.
The PDP Governors condemned Wike’s threats which they described as irresponsible and further reaffirmed their commitment and support for Fubara.
Towards this end, the PDP Governors are insisting on the surrendering of the Party structures in Rivers State to Governor Fubara and therefore want last Saturday Congresses in the State cancelled out rightly and.
It was also gathered that Wike is not leaving anything to chance and working with some members of the National Working Committee to hold on tight to the structures of the PDP in the state while serving in an All Progressives Congress led government.
The Governors however maintained their position and pointedly reminded Ambassador Damagum that while Wike served as governor of Rivers state, he enjoyed the privilege of being the leader of the Party in the State thus, cannot deny another the same privilege he enjoyed.
In this wise, the PDP governors specifically demanded that the Ward and Local Government congresses conducted in Rivers State, which gave the party’s structure to Wike, should be annulled while a fresh congress is conducted.
