The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, continued unabated yesterday, as key figures in the Governor Nyesom Wike Presidential Campaign Council, who are members of the party’s Board of Trustees, were noticeably absent from the board’s meeting.
The meeting was called by the party’s Board of Trustees to address issues raised by the party’s recent convention, which chose Abubakar Atiku as its presidential candidate, with Wike finishing second.
This came on the same day that young members of the party stormed the party’s national secretariat in Abuja in protest of the 2023 governorship ticket in Delta State and demanded the resignation of the party’s national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu.
Those who weren’t sighted during the meeting held at the National Executive Council Hall at PDP National Secretariat include: Governor Nyesom Wike, Prof. Jerry Gana, and Senator Zainab Kure.
Although details of the meeting held behind closed doors were shrouded in secrecy at press time, it was gathered that the crisis of confidence between the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, featured prominently.