Rivers crisis: PDP threatens to sanction Lamido, others over utterances

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has threatened to sanction the former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, and others that have been criticising the party leadership over its handling of the crisis in the Rivers State chapter of the party. Rising from an emergency meeting at the party’s headquarters […]

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has threatened to sanction the former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, and others that have been criticising the party leadership over its handling of the crisis in the Rivers State chapter of the party.

Rising from an emergency meeting at the party’s headquarters on Thursday evening, national publicity secretary of the party, Debo Ologunagba, re-assured members that the intervention of the leadership was already yielding results.

Lamido had on Wednesday in a message on his verified Facebook page asked the NWC to resign if they do not have the nerve to intervene in the raging crisis between the Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike.

But in their reaction after an emergency meeting, the NWC expressed “serious displeasure over incautious conduct, activities and unguarded utterances by certain leaders who are out to disparage critical organs of the party, inflame passions, cause division among members and bring our dear party to public disrepute for their selfish reasons.