PDP Sends Mohammed To Stop Ayade From APC

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has dispatched Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State to mediate in the crisis in the Cross River State chapter of the party which has prompted speculations of the imminent exit of Governor Ben Ayade out of the PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

GreenWhiteGreen GWG had on March 9, 2021 reported the imminent exit of the governor out of the PDP.

Receiving Mohammed in his office on Tuesday, Governor Ayade boasted that under his watch that the PDP had scored the highest returns in elections and was as such not moved by the persisting crisis that has seen him at logger heads with a substantial proportion of party stakeholders.

Governor Ayade’s aides have also pointed at Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State as sponsoring the rebellion against Ayade. The crisis in the PDP has seen the two tendencies in the party struggle over the Cross River North Senate seat.

But asserting his dominance in the PDP, Ayade said:

“I cannot blind myself to the challenges of PDP and decide not to know what to do at the right time for their [Cross River people] sake.

“I know you are somebody that doesn’t take injustice. One single injustice they will see a new Cross River state…and I say it as a warning because it does appears that your party seems to celebrate people who threaten and stress them.” Ayade stated

Continuing, the governor said: “all councillors [in the state] are PDP, council chairmen are PDP, all House of Assembly members are PDP, all commissioners are PDP, and all the National Assembly members except one are PDP: all of them are under my leadership”

Asserting that the political stakeholders would follow him, Governor Ayade said:

“I am happy you have created an opportunity for a melodrama. So today I am seated and dancing on the fence. Indeed that’s true.

“And so I speak with righteous anger for the continuous annoyance and nuisance orchestrated on our innocent by external factors. But I just hope this ends today.

“And so please as I leave you with some holy whispers, which will be very strong, firm and clear, it’s a harbinger of trouble”

“While I believe in ecclesiastics of peace, I believe in the catechism of good faith but I also believe in respect for the supremacy of an office.

“So if you take a catalytic combination of all I have said, it tells you that there is the need for a guided caution and at some persons going forward as a people, as a party.

“I think the time has come when all of us will gather and say enough is enough,” Ayade said of the provocations he claimed were being made against the PDP in the state.

“I can’t afford to make a decision just for my sake. I am not desperate in putting a successor but I am desperate for their well-being.”

Speaking, Governor Mohammed on his part called for party unity as he praised Ayade for connecting to the people of the state.

“You are inexorably connected in terms of perception, vision and where we want to take the country together and because our forefathers have been together in this kind of thing, we are connected intellectually and politically.

“There must be structures put in place to make sure that the affairs and aspirations of all Nigerians, especially our leaders are reached,” he said.

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