Former President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to broker peace between Rivers State Governor Nyesome Wike, National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Iyorchia Ayu and the presidential candidate of the opposition party Atiku Abubakar.
This was disclosed by a former Benue State Governor, Senator Gabriel Suswam while speaking on a television programme on Thursday.
Suswan said the party made the move to contact the former president to resolve the ongoing crisis in the PDP.
He said the crisis within the PDP was a “family affair,” hence Jonathan has been drafted to resolve the issues.
Suswan expressed hope that the party’s crisis would be resolved before the presidential election in February.
Suswam said: “Jonathan has been dragged into the issue to resolve the matter. Solving this problem between the G-5 governors is what we should be looking at. When Wike inaugurated the election council in Rivers State, all the governors were there; they were also there when Ortom inaugurated the same in Benue State; this shows that they still love the party.
“PDP has the capacity and internal mechanisms to resolve the party; this is why we are bringing in Jonathan to help resolve the matter.
“Jonathan has been dragged into the issue to resolve the matter. Solving this problem is what we should be looking at. They still love their party at heart.
“Wike had said he is open to reconciliation, Ortom said some of his comments were misinterpreted.”
