Governor Muazu Aliyu of Niger State has hinted at further crisis looming in the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP which lost the 2015 general election to the All Progressives Congress,APC.
Speaking in Dutse, Jigawa State capital on Saturday,Governor Aliyu said the leadership of PDP which ought to resign after losing an election has been threatening to form a new faction if they are compelled to resign.
“It is unfair that they are threatening to form a factional PDP because they were asked to resign” Aliyu said.
Recall that PDP national chairman, Mr Adamu Muazu and the National Working Committee NWC members have come under heavy criticisms following the loss of the presidential election by the party’s candidate,President Goodluck Jonathan to General Muhammadu Buhari of APC.
The crisis after election which has been dubbed PDP’s post -election trauma has been so intense that even president Jonathan had to call the warring parties to end the infighting. Senate President David Mark has also openly said the infighting in the party was bad and PDP should not see the loss as death sentence. Mark also said the party was on a path to self –destruction if the post election crisis did not stop.
Any hope that the PDP has ended the trauma was blown away Saturday when Governor Aliyu openly lamented the failure of the PDP leadership to resign just as he hinted at the plan by Muazu and others to form a parallel faction of PDP.
Aliyu , in a virtual endorsement of Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose’s endorsement of the call on Muazu ,others to resign like the leaders of British Labour and Lib-Dem parties, said “It is unfortunate that people had to be called to resign. The leaders are supposed to voluntarily resign their positions for the loss at the just concluded general elections.”
Governor Aliyu made these remarks during the inauguration of a township road which Jigawa state Governor Sule Lamido had named after ‘G7 Governors’ .
If Muzau and others proceed to form a new faction, it will be the second time PDP will be going through factionalisation .Stakeholders led by seven governors(G7) and former vice president Atiku Abubakar among others formed the New PDP prior to the presidential primaries.Five of the governors defected to APC,while Aliyu and Lamido stayed back in PDP.
PDP’s fortunes have dwindled since the factional crisis.Whether the party can withstand the emergence of a new faction as Governor Aliyu alleged remains to be see.
