With political campaign effectively underway, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT) is intensifying its effort to resolve the rift between the Governor Nyesom Wike-led aggrieved group and the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar.
The Senator Adolphus Wabara-led board has lined up meetings with critical stakeholders including the Rivers State governor, who the main opposition party has so far been unable to pacify since the emergence of his Delta State counterpart, Ifeanyi Okowa, as the vice presidential candidate of the former ruling party.
The reconciliation committee set up by the board has already met with Governors Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Sam Ortom (Benue), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Ahmadu Fintiri (Adamawa), and Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) as part of the move to iron out their grouses before the full commencement of the campaign.
The committee met with Okowa in Abuja on Saturday after which Senator Wabara told reporters that they will meet with Atiku and Wike in the coming days.
He affirmed that the BoT reconciliation committee has the wherewithal to resolve the crisis in the party.
Speaking after the meeting at the Delta State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, the former Senate President said: “Yes, we came as the special reconciliation committee of the Board of Trustees to visit our vice presidential, candidate, Governor Okowa on the ongoing crisis, and also to proffer solutions to those issues.
“We were properly briefed by His Excellency the vice presidential candidate on these issues. The committee is enlightened now on the issues and we’re moving forward.
“Like I said the last time, we have been going around and we met most of the governors. In the coming days, we will also meet with the principal, the Presidential candidate, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and from there we will proceed to meet with Governor Wike.
“We have met with some other governors, we have met Governor Samuel Ortom, Governor Seyi Makinde, Governor Seyi Makinde, Governor Ahmadu Fintri, Governor Ikpeazu and Ugwuanyi of Enugu State.
“We have what it takes to resolve this, and very soon we will resolve all these issues.”