Former national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbodiyan, has heaped the blame for the crisis rocking the opposition party on the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ologbodiyan, who stated this when he appeared on Arise TV’s The Morning Show on Tuesday, noted that he agreed with the claim by Debo Ologunagba, the national publicity secretary of the PDP that there is an external interference in the opposition party’s crisis.
He maintained that there are attempts by the APC to reduce the PDP to nothingness.
The PDP chieftain alleged that the appointment of Nyesom Wike, who is a PDP member, and his involvement in the APC government is part of the strategy to orchestrate the collapse of the opposition party.
He emphasised that the acting National Chairman of the PDP, Umar Damagum, is occupying the seat illegally.
He pointed out that Damagum is from the Northeast, and the Northcentral wants the position of National Chairman to return to the region.
Ologbodiyan said: “On the issue of external assault from the APC or the principals in the APC, you will recall that at every situation in which we have discussed PDP on this platform, I’ve always made the position known that there are attempts to reduce the People’s Democratic Party to a branch or an arm of the All Progressives Congress.
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“And I’ve also gone further to say that the involvement of the former presidential aspirant on the platform of the party and current Minister of FCT, and I mean former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, in the governance of the APC has created a room that can lead to the collapse of the People’s Democratic Party. That is a fact.”
“Like a proverb said, if there is no spilt on the wall, the lizard can’t come in, so definitely there will be issues in the party, but how much these issues are managed is one side, and how external influences come into them to finally disrupt and reduce the party to nothing else is also there.
“There are issues in the party. In the case of the National Chairman, the Northcentral believes that the position should return to them. Damagum is from the Northeast, and he is occupying that position.
“No matter how long he continues to stay there, Damagum is staying there illegitimately. It’s an issue in the party,” he added..
He added that the crisis would have been resolved if there were no external interference in the party.
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