Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kola Ologbodiyan, has said that the involvement of Nyesom Wike, the FCT Minister, in the governance of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has created room for the collapse of the PDP.
Ologbodiyan claimed that there are attempts to reduce the Peoples Democratic Party to a branch or an arm of the All Progressives Congress.
The statement comes amid the ongoing leadership crisis in the PDP.
He made this statement while fielding questions on Arise Television’s Morning Show programme on Tuesday.
He said: “First and foremost, I want to say that as a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, whatever Debo Ologunagba comes out to say is the official position of the Peoples Democratic Party as the substantive National Publicity Secretary of the party.
“So I cannot detach myself from whatever has come out in respect of the issues that he has forthrightly said that legitimately and constitutionally, Sunday Ude Okoye is the person recognized by the party, and not until he says otherwise, I think that is constitutional.
“On the issue of external assault from the APC or the principals in the APC, you recall that at every situation in which we have discussed the PDP on this platform, in which I have been involved, I have always made the position known that there are attempts to reduce the Peoples Democratic Party to a branch or an arm of the All Progressives Congress.
“I have also gone further to say that the involvement of the former presidential aspirant on the platform of the party and current Minister of FCT and former Governor of Rivers, in the governance of the All Progressives Congress has created room that can lead to the collapse of the Peoples Democratic Party. That’s a fact.”