PDP South west crisis: NWC moves to reconcile Fayose, Makinde

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has moved to reconcile the crisis rocking the party in South West.

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and the former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose are at loggerhead over who will control the party in the zone.

Of late, the leadership of the South-West arm of the PDP has been embroiled in crisis with Fayose and Makinde at the centre of the ruckus.

Makinde, a first term governor, is the only PDP governor in the South-West zone while the other five states in the region are ruled by the governors of the All Progressives Congress.

The leadership tussle between Makinde and Fayose has since generated verbal confrontations.

In a statement released on Wednesday by the Party National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the NWC will meet on the outcome of the reconciliation in the South West within 24 hours.

The party spokesman said after the NWC extensive meeting, the party has scaled up processes for reconciliation and as it affects South West Zonal Congress of the party.

He said the NWC resolve as follow:

“That beyond the legal conundrum in our party’s formation in the zone, the PDP must win the South West.

“Consequent upon this, the NWC further resolved that the meeting comprising the National Chairman, the Deputy National Chairman, the Secretary, the Senator Bukola Saraki-led reconciliation and Strategic committee, Governor Seyi Makinde and Former Governor Ayo Fayose, be held immediately for urgent resolution of all issues concerning South West

“The NWC will meet on the outcome of this reconciliation meeting within the next 24 hours”.

Recall that, on January 19, 2021, a Federal High Court, Lagos, judge, C J. Aneke had ruled that status quo ante Bellum be maintained pending the determination of the originating summons in the suit number FHC/L/CS/63/2021.

The suit was filed by some members of the South-West Zonal Caretaker Committee, seeking an order of the court directing that the zonal congress be held in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

Apart from the PDP, other defendants in the suit are the National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus and National Legal Adviser, Emmanuel Enoidem.

Hearing of the suit, which was earlier fixed for March 29, 2021, was rescheduled for April 16, 2021.

But in a letter addressed to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) dated March 31, 2021, and allegedly signed by Uche Secondus, the PDP National Chairman, a new date, April 10, 2021, was purportedly fixed for the congress, with Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital as the venue.

It was gathered that the purported letter had divided members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP as many of them kicked against the said date because of the subsisting order of the court restraining the party from going ahead with the congress pending determination of the case.

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