Wike: Hyenas, rent seekers in PDP frustrating peace efforts

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers has said that “hyenas and rent seekers in the People Democratic Party (PDP) were frustrating his efforts for amicable resolution of the crisis rocking the party.

Wike explained that the seeming intractable crisis in the PDP lingered because some vested interests, whom he described as “hyenas and rent seekers” remained obstinate and averse to justice, fairness and equity.

He said he would not support the current situation where the party’s presidential candidate, the national chairman and the director-general of the Presidential Campaign Council are all from the northern part of the country.

Wike spoke on Thursday while hosting the Cross River PDP governorship candidate, Senator Sandy Onor, and party stalwarts who visited him.

The governor said it was hypocritical of PDP members to criticise Muslim/Muslim ticket, while supporting that a particular region of the country should retain the presidency for another eight years.

He insisted that for the sake of peace, PDP should adhere to its Constitution, which recommends that when a presidential candidate emerges from the North, the national chairman should be from the South.

“The National Chairman said, if the presidential candidate comes from the North, he will resign; which means he has had this in mind.

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“Now, the thing has come to reality; now resign, he said `no’ and people are saying go and talk to Wike.

“I have accepted the presidential candidate. I have accepted the vice- presidential candidate, what’s the problem again?

“You, fulfil your part. Let the South have something; that is all I am preaching. You cannot have presidential candidate, national chairman, director-general of the campaign,” he stressed.

Wike said there were more things that were wrong with the arrangement.

“Nobody wants to speak the truth,” he persisted.

According to him, refusal to cede the national chairmanship position to the South will be a recipe for crisis in the party.

He said that the clamour for the chairmanship of the PDP to be zoned to the South would persist until justice, fairness and equity prevailed.

The Star