Rivers Crisis: Reno Omokri reveals what PDP ought to do
If I were the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, as soon as the crisis in Rivers State boiled over, I would have convened a meeting of PDP Governors and sent them to intervene in Rivers. I would also have mandated them to go there physically and ensured that Nigerians saw us intervening.
But by not doing so, we created a vacuum. Governor Simi Fubara looked like a destitute political orphan. The lacuna in our internal leadership was so glaring that President Bola Tinubu had to step in. It is a failure of leadership on our part.
Look at the Governors of the All Progressives Congress. They have a history of stepping in when one of their numbers is threatened. When Tinubu moved against Ambode, they stepped in. An APC Governor from the North even reportedly prostrated to Tinubu.
Being a member of a political party should come with benefits. Now, what benefit does Fubara have for being a member of the PDP? How have we protected him? Even if other PDP Governors did not step in, what about the Governors of Bayelsa and Akwa-Ibom? They are neighbouring states. To an extent, they are rich, being oil-producing. What effort or gesture did they make as an act of good neighbourliness?
Right now, the APC appears better organised than the PDP, and we need to step in to fix this failure in internal leadership otherwise, 2027 will end up like 2023. Nigerians will say, ‘If they cannot fix themselves, how can they fix Nigeria?’
Source: X| Reno Omokri
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