The founding fathers and faithful leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have been urged to rally round and save the party from imminent implosion and total collapse.
The former attorney general and commissioner for Justice in Ekiti state, Mr Owoseni Ajayi who stated this said some dissidents are bent on destroying the party with their anti-party activities.
Ajayi, who was a Commissioner under former governor, Ayodele Fayose administration while speaking with LEADERSHIP in Ado Ekiti, said stakeholders who were there when the party was formed and have benefitted immensely from the party structure must take action to end the crisis within PDP.
“People like Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Senator David Mark, Chief Bode George, Senator CK Awoyelu, Senator Sule Lamido, Senator Bukola Saraki and other leaders of the party, all of them should come together to save and rescue the party from its present crisis,so that Nigeria will not become a one party state”.
He posited that some forces, who claimed to be leaders of the PDP in Abuja are allegedly hobnobbing with the ruling APC and have been running the party as a branch of APC.
“The crisis in the PDP is a crisis of ego of the personalities in the party. Because the structure of the party is under the dissidents, there are no people to challenge them, so the issue of disciplining them does not arise.
“The publicity secretary of PDP, the national legal adviser, have been taking steps in order to correct the bad image the party is having , but some leaders don’t subscribe to having peace in the party.
“In Ekiti state here, the party will want to conduct a congress, in compliance with the constitution of the party, but the former governor will now go to court using his cronies to institute legal action to stop the party from conducting congress and to the PDP, he is with the ruling party.”
Ajayi alleged that they are using the resources of the federal government to fight and destabilise the opposition party where they claim to be members.
“Using the resources of the federal government to install stooge… across all the structures of the PDP in the country.”
The senior lawyer counselled President Bola Tinubu to be wary of the people who are ground standing, claiming they want him to have a seamless second term.
“They shouldn’t allow them to truncate democracy, because if there is no viable opposition in any nation’s democracy, people will turn somewhere else which may not augur well for our democracy.
“When you stifle and clip the hope of people in the opposition, and come to the conclusion of no hope in democracy for them, it will not be in the interest of democracy in Nigeria.”
He added that what is going on in all APC controlled states suggests that the country is moving towards one party state and the ongoing crisis in Rivers, Osun and other states not controlled by APC points to that fact.
