Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George, has expressed optimism that the party’s ‘self-inflicted’ crisis will be resolved at the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting.
Naijaonpoint reports that George, during an interview with ARISE Television on Thursday, acknowledged the PDP’s current state of disarray but dismissed suggestions that the crisis is irreparable.
Bode George maintained that despite PDP’s internal wranglings, the ability to confront uncomfortable truths behind closed doors was a measure of leadership competence and party maturity.
He argued that the situation stemmed from internal decisions and personal ambitions rather than structural failure.
He said, “I have been in this party since 1998. We have had crisis. There is no political organisation or any organisation, whether political or otherwise, that will not have crisis. And this is self-inflicted crisis. That’s what I’m saying. The people put their interest before the corporate interest of the party.
“I am pleading with all of them, those who still love this party, to please come down. We will meet on Monday. Call it whatever name you want to call it. And we will resolve our crisis. We will resolve it by Monday.
“When you have crisis within the party, like we have now, or between the legislative arm, the executive arm, and the party, it is the responsibility of the elders, the custodian of the liabilities and the assets of the party to weigh in. What I had done, and I will be quite explicit, is this. You know, there are two arguments about the meeting for Monday.
“The chairman said there will be no NEC meeting and stated there will be caucus meeting. Because according to him, you needed 21 days notice to the INEC. Now, the other members of the working committee said it was a postponement of NEC to the 30th of June. And that both the electoral act of 2022 and the INEC regulatory guidelines for political parties are right here.”