PDP Crisis: BoT Member Faults Presidential Campaign Council Composition

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) has deepened, as a Board of Trustee, BoT, member has faulted the composition of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council.
This came on a day Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State said the party had failed to use its internal conflict resolution mechanism to address the grievances of members like Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, warning that the development portends danger for the party ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Faulting the composition of the PDP campaign  council, the BoT member, who spoke to The Tide source in confidence, said it was an attempt to undermine the party’s National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu.
The party leader said: “The responsibility of the National Chairman is to lead the national campaign. As far as I am concerned, they are undermining the national chairman by appointing a governor to supervise the campaign. It is an aberration. When we get to any campaign venue, will the governor be the one to raise the hands of the candidate up? They are compounding more things and making more mistakes. Rather than face the facts, they believe the position we in the South West are looking for is not important. Why are they doing that? The chairman speaks at every campaign venue and he gives out the party flag. You set up a campaign council and you put the national chairman under the Director-General of the campaign council, who is like an administrative officer.  Is that how they will behave when they get to the Villa?”
Meanwhile, Governor Ortom, who spoke during an expanded caucus/stakeholders meeting of the PDP in Makurdi, stated that he had offered suggestions on how the party would resolve the issues, warning that any move to ignore or relegate Governor Wike or anyone would not be in the interest of the party, particularly in an election year.