PDP Gives Update On Punishing Wike, Ortom, Others Over Anti-party Activities

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it is not focused on punishing the five aggrieved governors of the party for alleged anti-party activities.

Naija News reports that the National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, said the party is focused on ensuring that its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar,  wins Saturday’s presidential election.

Ologungaba said the party is less concerned with the activities of the five governors, popularly known as G 5, who have endorsed other presidential candidates.

He, however, declined to reveal what disciplinary actions the party will take following the open endorsement given by some of the G-5 governors to other presidential candidates.

He said, “Our next action is to focus on the election. The issues before us are very important. We are focusing on what is important to us as a party. These are issues of serious concern for us and Nigerians, issues of insecurity, poverty, and human development. As we speak we have about 100m Nigerians living in poverty.

“So as a party, we are focused on the election because we want to rescue Nigeria from the misrule of the APC and we are following through with that.”

Recall that the G-5 governors comprising Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Samuel Ortom (Benue), and Seyi Makinde (Oyo) insisted that the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, must quit his position, and allow a southerner take over for power balancing.

The governors also pulled out of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council and decided not to support the party’s presidential candidate.

While Ayu refused to resign, Atiku has repeatedly declined pressure from the governors to lean on the national chairman to resign. After a series of failed peace moves, the governors have since pitched their tents with their preferred presidential candidates.

While Ortom has since endorsed Labour Party’s Peter Obi, Wike has allegedly asked his loyalists to back APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu. Ikpeazu and Ugwuanyi are yet to openly align with either Atiku or Obi, while Makinde is leaning towards Tinubu.