Former National Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday Udeh-Okoye, has stated that the party would not be facing its current internal crises if he had emerged as the National Secretary.
Udeh-Okoye made the remark on Tuesday while responding to questions during an interview on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television.
DAILY POST recalls that a significant number of PDP governors and lawmakers, including Udeh-Okoye himself, have defected from the party in recent months.
On Tuesday, Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State and three federal lawmakers from Kaduna State defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
DAILY POST also reported that the crisis within PDP deepened on Tuesday at the Federal High Court in Abuja, where the party’s National Chairman, Umar Iliya Damagum, and the National Legal Adviser, Kamaldeen Ajibade, openly disagreed in court.
Reacting to these developments, Udeh-Okoye said: “If I had become the National Secretary, certainly what is going on today in PDP wouldn’t have been going on. There would have been a very big change.
“Just look at what happened in court. How can the national party chairman and the legal adviser be at loggerheads? Does that show that they know what they are doing?
“How can someone who cannot win his polling booth be a national party manager? Samuel Anyanwu ran for governorship in his state but could not win. That’s why he ran back to Abuja to jostle for the party’s national secretaryship.”