A former Director, PDP Presidential Campaign, Oladimeji Fabiyi, has slammed the party’s leadership, saying they are not responsible and that they are in bed with the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
According to him, the PDP has had issues since the 2023 elections, and those who have committed grievous actions that need to be disciplined have not been disciplined.
He specifically pointed out that the party has not summoned the courage to punish individuals such as the former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, who publicly admitted working against the party during the last general elections.
It is no longer news that Wike worked against his own party during the 2023 presidential election after he failed to get the party’s ticket which a former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar won.
Wike, alongside four other governors, moved against their party and supported the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu who later became the President as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Speaking on Arise News on Monday, Fabiyi said the current leadership of the party has to go for it to stand any chance of becoming a serious party.
“For me, I’ve totally lost confidence in the current leadership of the party, and I don’t see them getting anything right until they all leave so that we can have a new lease of life in the party.
“The current NWC of the party has failed the party. So I don’t have confidence in anything they do.
“Well, reconciliation is a trend that Saraki has been on but I have my reservation for him, because when the North Central needed him mostly, he deserted them.
“He deserted the North Central. So as far as I’m concerned, it’s all jokes. We have to tell them the truth. We have to tell them. If you don’t tell yourself the truth, you can’t fix the problem.
“The problem is that we have leadership that is not responsible. They should have been more responsible than what they’re doing now, it’s everywhere in the news.
“The party has had issues since after the election. The party lost the presidential election and lost some states too. So up till now, there are some people that have committed serious, grievous actions that are meant to be disciplined.
“Have you been able to discipline them? They set up a reconciliation committee. What has been the report? What has been the outcome of the reconciliation committee, what have they done?
“If there is no offense, there can’t be punishment. Some people have committed offense in this case. So what has the party been doing?
“Everywhere, all over now, everybody, the majority opinion is that why Minister Wike has not been punished for coming out to admit that he worked against the party and still going to do that.
“He’s still there today. The governors’ forum meeting, to me, is just a gathering of compromise rather than gardening of strategy because the expectations of the party faithful were so high.
“They thought these governors would sit down and look at those germain issues, those front burners, and address them, and take hard decisions on them,” he stated.
