Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Segun Shonmi has blamed President Bola Tinubu for the problems of the main opposition party.
Naija News reports that former Ogun PDP governorship candidate, Sowunmi, disclosed this in an interview with Channels Television’s Politics Today.
According to him, Tinubu was the main problem for the PDP and there was no need for the president to appoint former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) without consultation with the party. He pointed out.
Mr. Sowunmi said that when former President Olusegun Obasanjo wanted to form a government of national unity, he consulted the elders of the party.
He said: “People want to say Wike is the problem of PDP but I would rather say it is President Bola Tinubu.
“He didn’t need to appoint our members into cabinet without talking to us. He didn’t need to take Nyesom Wike out of our party and appoint him.”
Speaking on the crisis rocking the party, Mr Sowunmi expressed optimism that the PDP would overcome the current challenges and return to power.
He added that the party is neither dead nor ailing, insisting that the PDP is struggling with democracy.
“We’re not yet at the point where we can say we’ve got a new executive,” he said. Wike’s status remains complicated as he is a minister in the APC government and still belongs to the PDP.
“These are consequences that have to be managed. But I very strongly disagree with the fact that you are describing the party as over.”
