In the run-up to the 2023 general elections, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders are intensifying efforts to appease Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike and other aggrieved members of the party.
Sunday Sun gathered that in the last three days, party leaders have held series of meetings on how best to resolve the issues arising from the nomination of Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, as the PDP 2023 vice presidential candidate.
The opposition party has been enmeshed in crisis since the emergence of Okowa as Atiku Abubakar’s running mate as the nomination did not gone down well with Wike’s supporters.
Consequently, the Rivers State governor, as well as Governors Samuel Ortom, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Okezie Ikpeazu and Seyi Makinde of Benue, Enugu, Abia and Oyo states respectively, and their loyalists have stayed away from PDP functions.
Also, some party stakeholders, it was gathered, started shopping for a replacement of the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, over alleged bias in the processes leading to the emergence of the party’s presidential candidate and the running mate. Regardless, Ayu, through his spokesman, Simon Imobo-Tswam, has consistently denied the allegation.
