Oladimeji Fabiyi, a former director of the PDP Presidential Campaign, has attacked the party’s leadership, accusing them of being complicit with the ruling All Progressives Congress, or APC, and claiming they are not accountable.
He claims that since the 2023 elections, the PDP has had problems and that individuals who have engaged in egregious behaviour that calls for punishment have not received it.
In particular, he said that the party has not had the guts to discipline people like Nyesom Wike, the former governor of Rivers State, who came clean about working against the party in the most recent general election.
Wike working against his own party in the 2023 presidential election after failing to get the party’s ticket, which was secured by former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is no longer news.
Together with four other governors, Wike turned against their party and backed Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress candidate who was subsequently proclaimed the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
In an interview with Arise News on Monday, Fabiyi stated that the party’s existing leadership must go if it is to have any hope of developing into a legitimate party.
“For me, I’ve totally lost confidence in the current leadership of the party, and I don’t see them getting anything right until they all leave so that we can have a new lease of life in the party.
“The current NWC of the party has failed the party. So I don’t have confidence in anything they do.
“Well, reconciliation is a trend that Saraki has been on but I have my reservation for him, because when the North Central needed him mostly, he deserted them.
“He deserted the North Central. So as far as I’m concerned, it’s all jokes. We have to tell them the truth. We have to tell them. If you don’t tell yourself the truth, you can’t fix the problem.
“The problem is that we have leadership that is not responsible. They should have been more responsible than what they’re doing now, it’s everywhere in the news.
“The party has had issues since after the election. The party lost the presidential election and lost some states too. So up till now, there are some people that have committed serious, grievous actions that are meant to be disciplined.
“Have you been able to discipline them? They set up a reconciliation committee. What has been the report? What has been the outcome of the reconciliation committee, what have they done?
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“If there is no offense, there can’t be punishment. Some people have committed offense in this case. So what has the party been doing?
“Everywhere, all over now, everybody, the majority opinion is that why Minister Wike has not been punished for coming out to admit that he worked against the party and still going to do that.
“He’s still there today. The governors’ forum meeting, to me, is just a gathering of compromise rather than gardening of strategy because the expectations of the party faithful were so high.
“They thought these governors would sit down and look at those germain issues, those front burners, and address them, and take hard decisions on them,” he stated.
