Hashim warns PDP caretaker body against factional convention
•Party chieftain preaches unity By Our Reporters A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Gbenga Hashim, has cautioned the party’s national caretaker committee against staging
•Party chieftain preaches unity
By Our Reporters
A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Gbenga Hashim, has cautioned the party’s national caretaker committee against staging what he called another factional convention.
He warned that such a move could further fracture the party.
Hashim described the plan as a serious threat to the unity and survival of the PDP.
The party chieftain recalled that the group loyal to Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike and the Tanimu Turaki-led group had earlier agreed to pursue a unity convention before the recent judgment of the Court of Appeal.
According to him, the reconciliation process was derailed by what he called the activities of a “fifth columnist,” who allegedly sabotaged efforts in pursuit of external interests.
“I urge the Wike faction not to renege on the gentleman’s agreement already made. This is about the survival and integrity of the PDP,” Hashim said.
The former presidential candidate also warned against alleged moves to tamper with the executive committees of state chapters, particularly in Plateau, Nasarawa, Kaduna, and Kano states.
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He noted that such actions would violate the party’s constitution.
Hashim maintained that the tenures of state executives are fixed and cannot be arbitrarily altered, cautioning against exporting the national leadership crisis into otherwise stable state structures.
The PDP chieftain listed the authentic chairmen in the affected states as Raymond Dabo (Plateau), Adamu Ninga (Nasarawa), Edward Percy Masha (Kaduna), and Yusuf Ado Kibiya (Kano), insisting that their mandates must be respected.
He warned that imposing parallel structures in states without internal disputes could deepen the crisis and weaken the party’s cohesion ahead of future elections.
The presidential aspirant also cautioned that key actors in the ongoing dispute risk emerging as political losers if they fail to resolve their differences and adhere strictly to an agreed framework for power-sharing and the harmonisation of the National Working Committees of the rival factions.
Hashim advised all stakeholders to return to the negotiation table and conclude work on a unified leadership structure, stressing that any factional convention would ultimately produce a lose-lose outcome for the party.
He added that unity remains the only viable path for the PDP to regain its strength, credibility and electoral competitiveness.
