{"id":131160,"date":"2024-09-17T11:18:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T10:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-must-act-now-tolerated-wike-for-too-long-ex-national-auditor-nnaji"},"modified":"2024-09-17T12:20:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T11:20:37","slug":"pdp-must-act-now-tolerated-wike-for-too-long-ex-national-auditor-nnaji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-must-act-now-tolerated-wike-for-too-long-ex-national-auditor-nnaji","title":{"rendered":"PDP must act now, tolerated Wike for too long \u2013 Ex-National Auditor, Nnaji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former National Auditor of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bar. Ray Nnaji has suggested that the party tolerated the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike for too long.<\/p>\n<p>Nnaji stated this in an exclusive interview with DAILY POST while offering his view on the crisis plaguing the party.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amid the challenge from Wike daring any governor or leader of the PDP to publicly call him a mole.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister threw the challenge when he appeared on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today programme.<\/p>\n<p>He had previously dared State governors elected under the platform of the PDP over his threat that he will put fire in their states.<\/p>\n<p>Wike said he had no apology to anybody, insisting that heaven will not fall.<\/p>\n<p>However, lamenting on what has become of the party, the former auditor stated that no right member of the PDP will commend what\u2019s happening in the party, saying he doesn\u2019t see Wike being in APC and the PDP at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Nnaji also said that the PDP wasted time in replacing its former National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, insisting that the vacuum created room for the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>His words: \u201cNo right member of the PDP will commend what\u2019s happening in the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see Wike being in APC and the PDP at the same time. It\u2019s the soul of Rivers State they are pursuing for the purposes of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know quite well that Wike used his power as a former governor to make sure that APC was assisted to come to power, that was why he was compensated with a ministerial appointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Wike) wanted to pull the structure he had then into the APC. That explains why the APC dissolved its Rivers state executives, which prompted the members to go to the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWike himself, and those 25 State House of Assembly members who defected, when they found out that others weren\u2019t following them, the problem in the state started.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main fact is that the acting Chairman failed to do what he ought to do. It cannot be blamed on the acting Chairman alone, it should be blamed on the Party entirely because the constitution is very clear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a vacancy exists, what do you do? Of course, the constitution provided answers to all those things, but they failed to do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIyorchia Ayu was from North Central, when he left the position, Damagun came just to fill the gap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party shouldn\u2019t have wasted time in replacing Iyorchia Ayu. The party would have replaced Ayu with another person from that zone. If that would have been done, I don\u2019t think we would have entered into this crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it is as difficult with the party as it was with Amodu Sheriff, which ended up in the Supreme Court before the 2019 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still believe that the party will still come out of it, even though they didn\u2019t do what they ought to have done early enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On setting up a reconciliation committee, Nnaji had this to say: \u201cI don\u2019t know who they are reconciling with. Is it Wike or the Governor?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the look of things, the government is not ready to play ball, when Wike wants the structure. And if you give Wike the structure, the governor becomes a follower of Wike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is not what the governor wants, he\u2019s supposed to be the leader of the party in the state and take charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWike, seeing what\u2019s happening, believes he has done his parallel congress and produced a structure. Of course, the governor has his own structure, who the national picks will be another issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learnt Wike was invited to the disciplinary committee, I don\u2019t know the outcome of the invitation but they waited too long to allow Wike to this point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was not part of the formation of the party but he\u2019s the most beneficiary of the PDP. Going ahead to seek the destruction of the party he has benefited a lot from doesn\u2019t augur well for him, especially in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he destroys PDP, who\u2019s sure the APC will be a comfortable place for him to stay?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s thinking from that angle. It is his personal interest that matters most for him now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PDP has to make sure it puts its house in order to see if it can liberate the country come 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former National Auditor of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bar. Ray Nnaji has suggested that the party tolerated the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike for too long. Nnaji stated this in an exclusive interview with DAILY POST while offering his view on the crisis plaguing the party. 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