PDP BoT Empanels Body To Reconcile Wike, Atiku, Others

In an effort to reconcile the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2023 Presidential candidate, former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) has set up a Committee of Whole.
Recall that Atiku and Wike’s camp have been in a cold war since the party’s primaries and the unveiling of Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, as the presidential candidate’s running mate.
Briefing journalists at the end of the BoT meeting, which lasted for about four hours in Abuja, yesterday, former federal lawmaker, Senator Abdul Ningi, said the committee was expected to interface with the warring camps.
He said, “We have set up in this meeting committee of the BoT to be able to interface between warring factions, particularly the acrimony that is taking place between the presidential candidate and Governor Wike.”
Ningi said the committee was also expected to reconcile other conflicts that were taking place in the party across the country.
“The committee is the Committee of the Whole; that means every other BoT member is a member of the committee. I cannot tell you the grievances and the timeframe,” he started.
On whether the call for the resignation of the PDP National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, was discussed at the BoT meeting, Ningi said: “We have not even discussed any issue of anybody stepping down. What we discussed is what I told you”.