AS the Tuesday peace meeting between the Board of Trustees and the governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, ended in deadlock, hopes of resolving the crisis ravaging the Peoples Democratic Party were crushed.
At around 4:35 pm, the nearly four-hour closed-door meeting in Government House, Port Harcourt, came to an end as the participants emerged happy and joking with press reporters.
The meeting was part of efforts to resolve the post presidential primary crisis plaguing the party with the Rivers State governor at the centre of the crisis following his call for the resignation of the National Chairman Iyorchia Ayu.
Led by the former Senate President Adolphus Wabara, the BoT members said their meeting with the Rivers state governor was progressive and expressed hope that soon the party’s internal crisis will be sorted out peacefully.
The meeting, which lasted four hours had Dr. Ibrahim Idris, Chief Okwesilieze Nwodo, Chief Shuaib Oyedokun, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN), Dame Dr. Esther Uduehi and Hajiya Zainab Maina on the BoT delegation.
Senator Adolphus Wabara, the PDP BoT’s acting chairman, told newsmen that although they had an open conversation, no decision had been made.
He said, “We have not concluded. You know it is always easy to discuss. But to make peace takes sometime.
“We are better informed. We have gotten some new information. Every coin has two sides. In concrete terms, it is work in progress.”
“We have not concluded. It’s always easy to destroy but to make up, to make peace takes some time. But I think we are better informed, we have gotten some information. Every coin has two sides. We have been briefed by His Excellency. We will go back to Abuja to re-digest all that we gathered from His Excellency. We had very frank talks.
“I’m acting chairman of the Board of Trustees of this party. I do not have the exclusiveness to stand here and tell you what the Board of Trustees will come up with. We have come here, we are going back, we will convene a meeting of the Board of Trustees, brief them and that is when Nigerians will hear where the Board of Trustees stands. Since it is an advisory body, conscience of the party, we will be there to tell the party the truth and nothing but the truth about our findings.”
He said, since this was the first meeting of the BoT intervening in the crisis, they were optimistic of attending to the issues as a family, adding that with Wike’s cooperation and other aggrieved four governors, PDP will win at the 2023 general elections across the country.
“But one good thing is that this family remains one. You know, we are still under the umbrella called PDP and by the special grace of God, we will end up very victorious and we will end up in the Villa in May 2023 with his cooperation and support of other governors; four of them. I think we will make progress, no doubt about it.”
Wabara, further described governor Wike as an important asset to the PDP, pointed out that the governor’s infrastructural development in Rivers State is already campaigning for the party.
“Presidential campaign has started and it is the policy of our great party that we will all go home, His Excellency is here and campaigning for the party. I will go to Abia state where I come from and campaign, you know there is no ballot box for me in Abuja. Every one of us here are from one zone or the other”.
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