Fubara vs Wike: PDP National leadership should resign, if they lack capacity to settle crisis – Sule Lamido

Former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido has lashed out at the National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for allowing President Bola Tinubu to wade into political crisis between Rivers State governor, Siminalaya Fubara and Nyesom Wike, the immediate past governor of Rivers State.

Lamido said, it was a shame and embarrassing for Fubara who is a governor on the opposition Peoples Democratic Party to sign a peace deal out of intimidation and fear without the PDP leadership stepping into the case.

The politician reacting in a post on his X handle (formerly Twitter), said, President Bola Tinubu has nothing to offer in the crisis other than taking advantage and exploiting it to the gain of his All Progressives Congress, because the PDP has refused to protect their governor.

He said: “Pray do we still have the National Working Committee of the PDP? Or better still, do we have a party called PDP? If we have one of the two, how come their total absence in the saga playing out in the PDP Family in Rivers?

“Is the docility of the leadership of the PDP so comatose to the extent that President Tinubu of APC, our sworn rival and opponent is now the grand patriarch of PDP? It is inconceivable that a political party will simply sit back and allow its fortunes taken over by a rapacious scavenger, the APC.

“What President Tinubu did in the so-called peace meeting is not brokering peace in Rivers State, but using his office to enhance the fortunes of his political party.

“There many areas yearning for peace in the country where President Tinubu’s political expertise, sagacity and wisdom is needed. What skills has he applied to stop the killings of citizens in Nigeria, which is his primary responsibility which he has conveniently looked away.

“Unwittingly the so called peace accord in Rivers only planted the mines which will definitely explode in the not too distant future with collateral consequences on the entire country.”

Lamido added that the peace accord signed by governor Fubara should be discarded into trash can, noting that if not settled, it would snowball into ethnic crisis in Rivers.

He urged the PDP to take every act of unconstitutionality and illegality to court to wade off APC from Rivers State.

“Asari Mujaheed Tokubo and Chief Edwin Clark have alluded to this last week. The PDP National Executive should feel sufficiently embarrassed if not slighted by the action taken by President Tinubu to reward a political mercenary with PDP fortunes in Rivers State.

“More to the eternal shame of PDP NWC that a tribal voice of Ijaws through Chief Edwin Clark press conference has to be deployed to challenge the illegality and unconstitutionality of the peace accord.

“Like Chief Clark said in the press conference, if Tinbu as the then Governor of Lagos could stand up and fight President Obasanjo’s wholesome power and personality and endure to overcome, can’t PDP do likewise?

“The PDP must take off from where Chief Clark started to fight this illegality through our justice system and all other legal means possible! If the National Executive of the PDP does not have the nerve to stand up and protect its own, it should honorably step down to allow for the election of competent hands.

“To Gov Fubara of Rivers State, the document you signed was under an environment not friendly to real conflict resolution and it was presided by the force of fear, intimidation and blackmail. Therefore shred the document and toss it into trash can.

“Gov Fubara may wish to know that President Tinubu, who chaired the meeting, was running with the dear and hunting with hound!”