Tobi Adebayo
A group identified as the Peoples Democratic Party Rescue Mission (PDP-RM) has knocked Alhaji Adamu Waziri, a member of the party’s Board of Trustee (BoT) over his disparaging comments on Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike.
According to reports, Waziri has been against the move by party leaders to reach out to Wike over the ill-treatment meted on him.
Recall that ThisNigeria reported that the PDP presidential flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar had jetissoned Wike, who was the party’s choice, to pick Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate in the 2023 Presidential election.
Reacting to Waziri’s moves, the group, in a statement by its Diaspora coordinator, Deacon Darlington Okpebholo Ray, described Waziri’s comments on Wike as “uncomplimentary, reckless and irresponsible”.
“People like Alhaji Waziri from Yobe State have contributed nothing to the party but are always there to fan embers of discord.
” This happens while other party members work day and night to resolve the crisis rocking the party.
“Men like Waziri shouldn’t be encouraged to continue to cast aspersions at the person of the Rivers State Governor, Wike,” he said.
Ray further described Waziri as “totally unfit to be in the party as the PDP has no place for bigots and trouble makers who contribute nothing to the party.”
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“When Wike was going around the country begging those who left the party to return and appealing to the aggrieved ones to remain, where was Adamu Waziri”?
“The problem we have in the party today is that people who did not plant want to harvest, and those who were running from the party when it seemed everything was down for the party are now coming out to reap were and what they did not sow.
“A history of Waziri’s foray into politics shows that he is of no relevance in gathering votes for the PDP.
“As the party leader in Yobe state, he couldn’t win the state for President Jonathan in 2015.
“Ask him how many votes he gave his Atiku Abubakar in 2019; it’s only 50, 763 which represented 9.08% while Buhari got 497, 914, which amounts to 89.01%.
“Should this be the person to be appointed into the Party BoT, and still wonder why he is making trouble.
“Wike should be treated with respect considering what the governor was able to accomplish despite onslaught on him from Buhari in 2019,” Ray added .
