Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his Oyo, Abia, and Benue counterparts yesterday jetted out to Spain in apparently continued strengthening of forces and interests over the 2023 presidential election as the divisions in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lingers.
Africa Today News, New York reports that on Friday night after his latest media revelations in Port Harcourt on his camp’s anger against party chairman, Sen Iyorcha Ayu and presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Wike was spotted with Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), and Samuel Ortom (Benue) at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa in Ikwerre Local Government Area where they jetted early Saturday.
A party chieftain confirmed, ‘Yes, it is true. They left for Spain early Saturday morning, but I can’t say the reason for the trip.’
Hopes of resolving the protracted crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) dimmed considerably, last Friday, as the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) failed to broker a truce between the warring parties.
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The BoT at the end of its mediation efforts over crisis in the party at the weekend approved that the National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, can remain in office until after the 2023 elections.
But, the decision has not gone done well with party leaders who are insisting that the chairman must quit.
Africa Today News, New York gathered that this in an indication that except there is sudden change of mind in the two warring camps in the PDP, the opposition party would be going into the next general elections with a sharply divided house.
The PDP has been embroiled in crisis, which erupted after its national convention in May.
One of the camps is led by the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, backed by Governors Samuel Ortom, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Okezie Ikpeazu and Seyi Makinde of Benue, Enugu, Abia and Oyo states.
The G-5 governors, who lost out in the contest for the PDP presidential vice president slot have continued to insist on the replacement of Ayu as the party chairman, with a Southerner, ahead of the 2023 election, in order to strike a North/South balance in the PDP, as a condition for reconciliation in the party.