- President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been blamed for the internal crisis rocking the opposition PDP
- A top PDP chieftain Segun Sowunmi faulted Tinubu’s decision to appoint Nyesom Wike as FCT minister without consulting the leadership of the party
- In a trending interview on Wednesday, Sowunmi compared Tinubu’s handling of the situation to that of former President Obasanjo, who, when forming a national unity government, made sure to consult party elders before appointing members from other parties to top government positions
On Wednesday, November 20, Segun Sowunmi, a top chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is his party’s main problem.
Sowunmi, former Ogun PDP governorship candidate, made this assertion on Channels Television’s Politics Today. In the trending interview clip, Sowunmi also faulted the appointment of former Rivers state governor Nyesom Wike as minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
According to him, Tinubu had no business selecting Wike as a member of his cabinet. “People will like to say Wike but I will rather say President Bola Tinubu,” he said when asked what the PDP’s main problem is. “He has no business appointing our member into his cabinet without talking to us. He had no business taking Nyesom Wike from our party and appointing him.”
Sowunmi stated that when former President Olusegun Obasanjo wanted to form a government of national unity, he consulted the elders of the party.
He explained that if Tinubu wanted the PDP to be okay, he would return Wike back to the opposition party. ”President Bola Tinubu is the problem of the PDP, he had no business appointing Wike in his cabinet without talking to us.”
