PDP ‘in crisis’ as they move to choose their NASS leaders

The zoning of ministerial seats to lawmakers in the National Assembly (NASS) which caused crisis in NASS and the All Progressive Congress (APC) seems to be extending to the People Democratic Party (PDP).

There are indications that a crisis is also brewing in PDP over the choice of who should occupy some positions in NASS among its senators.

According to Punch, one of the senators, who spoke on condition of anonymity in Abuja on Thursday, said powerful forces in the party were planning to install their cronies as principal officers of the party in the National Assembly.

PDP, through its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, had earlier on Wednesday, announced the zoning of the offices to different zones.

 

Th senator said the zoning had hurled some influential leaders of the party, including former President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, against the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, as well as the Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike.

Jonathan is said to be rooting for  George Sekibo as Minority Leader while both Ekweremadu and Wike are against this choice.

The immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom state, who is now senator,  Godswill Akpabio, is also said to have shown interest in the same position. But his ambition is against the senate rules on ranking.

PDP is expected to bring its decision on the zoning to the Senate on July 21, when the upper chamber resumes plenary.
A senator from the South-South zone, also said that the crisis is capable of weakening the PDP as an opposition party in the years ahead.
“We are seeing the All Progressives Congress crisis now, ours is also in the making because before July 21, if we too don’t sort ourselves out, we can at best say that what is capable of weakening the PDP ahead of its role as a viable opposition party in the years ahead may have been planted.
“We all thought the issue of Senate Minority Leader has been laid to rest until the DSP (Deputy Senate President) called us for a meeting in his house where he sought peoples’ opinion on the propriety or otherwise of selecting Sen. John Eno for the position.
“I think it was from there the former Akwa-Ibom governor got the feeling that if the matter has to be revisited, then he would take a shot at it, but he doesn’t know that his ambition is against the rules of the senate as regards the selection of its Principal Officers.
“Before then, we were all facing the challenge of the suggestion by the former president and his wife that we should consider Sekibo who is from Rivers state but the duo of Ekweremadu and Wike kicked against it,” he said.

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