When I Heard Atiku Was Contesting In The Primaries I Sent A Letter To Him And Ayu – Peter Obi’s Former Lecturer Speaks On PDP Crisis

A retired professor of philosophy, Uzodinma Nwala who coincidentally happens to be a former lecturer and mentor of Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka has weighed in on the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Nwala who was a member of the G34 that formed the PDP in 1998 told The Whistler that when he got wind of Atiku Abubakar’s interest in the PDP presidential ticket he sent a letter to him and the party’s national chairman Iyorchia Ayu.

He explained that he warned them against forgetting the laws and convictions the party was built on.

He said, “I wrote a letter to Ayu and sent a copy to Atiku at the beginning of the primaries when there was discussion about rotation of power. I drew the attention to the PDP and the foundation PDP had laid. They were members. Atiku was a member. Ayu was a member. We started from G34. That G34 I wrote its first document that we discussed in Lagos. The document that gave right to G34, I wrote it. I wrote the original document.”

The professor explained that when the founding fathers of the opposition came together to set a blue print for the party to follow they had agreed that the presidency should rotate in a South/North alternation beginning with the South

“Because in terms of rotation, what we agreed on was that the presidency should rotate in a South/North alternation beginning with the south because the north had had it for several times. The south/north alternation among the six geopolitical zones, meaning that if the Southern zone takes it this time, next time it goes to the northern zone, it comes back to another southern zone, it goes back to another northern zone and so on. That was what we had agreed on,” he added.

Nwala said that in his letter he told Atiku and Ayu that the party ought to stand by that decision of rotating power and those who were doing otherwise were enemies of the stability of the country.

However, he stated that his letter was ignored.