By Correspondent in Minna
The Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Tudun-wada South Ward of Niger state, Hon. Yahaya Suleiman Ebbo, has appealed to party members to remain calm and wait for the National Secretariat of the paarty as it tries to resolve the lingering crisis threatening the foundation of the party in the state.
In the same vein, the peace maker urged Alhaji Abdullahi Hussaini Maibasira, the suspended National Financial Secretary of the party, to work for unity and growth of the party.
He noted that disunity and instigation of some youths against the leadership of the party in Niger state would not augur well for the party.
Ebbo gave the advice while speaking in an interview with journalists in Minna against the backdrop of crisis rocking the party in the state which led to the suspension of Maibasira and the former deputy governor of the state, Dr. Shem Zagbayi Nuhu.
He told the embattle parties in the crisis that, “they stand to gain if the party remains united as one.”
The Ward Chairman expressed surprise that some elders of the party, including founding members in Niger state, could descend so low as instigating some youths to disrespect party elders, thereby creating chaos instead of encouraging youths to learn to play the game of politics without bitterness.
He called on all the members of the party behind the current crisis to desist from politics of bitterness without which, he noted, the PDP in the state would suffer the dire consequences.
Ebbo said, “It couldn’t have been possible for some youths to decide, on their own, to say they were suspending Niger state leader of the party without my knowledge, the knowledge of our local government party chairman and other excos.”
“They went as far as forging PDP letter head paper, a criminal offence, yet some of our elders still did not see anything wrong in encouraging them to ride on.
” That is why they went to the extent of embarrassing our leader, notwithstanding sacrifices he made over the years for the party.
He called on Maibasira to stop disrespecting the party supremacy and elders, adding that such behaviour “only goes a long way to show the kind of stuff he is made off and that he cares more about himself than the collective interest of the PDP.”
The Ward Chairman said the PDP family in the state “now know where the problems of the party started and who is behind the crisis bdevilling which brought it almost to its knees.”
Ebbo also advised Maibasira to stay focused instead of embarking on media war that would cause more harm than good to the PDP family in the state.
