A committee given the arduous task of appeasing Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike will begin sitting on Monday in Abuja.
Mr Wike had been at daggers drawn with the presidential candidate of his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, since the latter pipped him to the presidential ticket in Abuja on May 29. Atiku managed to make the governor even angrier by the manner in which he picked Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate, rejecting a recommendation to placate Mr Wike with the position.
The angry governor over the following weeks refused to speak with Atiku or his emissaries and was instead sending coded threats to the candidate and party. The issue has escalated into a major crisis in the PDP as a group which Mr Wike leads is demanding the immediate reconstitution of the party’s leadership.
Unavoidable crisis
To be fair, that crisis is an unavoidable consequence of Atiku’s victory in the primary election. His nomination put all the major…
