A silent war has broken out in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP as the party’s governors and chieftains project configurations to outsmart the All Progressives Congress, APC in the 2023 General Election.
In the latest development, a crack has emerged among the governors with a camp including Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State demanding the resignation of Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal as chairman of the PDP Governors Forum. The demand, it was gathered based on the insistence that he cannot be chairman of the influential Governors’ Forum and be a participant in the contest for the party’s presidential ticket.
Meanwhile, the expectation that the powerful clique of retired generals would again back Atiku Abubakar as it did in 2019 may have been dashed with claims that Senator Bukola Saraki may have become the darling of the retired generals.
The division in the top hierarchy of the PDP according to inside sources may have broken the unity of the governors. While the governors remain united in removing the APC from the presidency, they are divided on strategy with zoning increasingly becoming an issue among some of the governors.
Saturday Vanguard reports that Governor Wike has been especially trenchant on the need for the presidential candidate to be picked from the Southern part of the country.
