PDP Crisis: Bode George Blast Mu'azu

The lingering crisis crippling the Peoples Democratic Party has pitched the National Chairman, Alh. Adamu Mu'azu against the former National Deputy Chairman of the party, Chief Bode George.


Yesterday, during a closed-door meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan, his aides and some members of the National Working Committee of the party, Chief Bode George, a former deputy national chairman of the party gave his opinion on the crisis in the party, by saying the National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu does not have any right to be the judge in the case of about him stepping aside as canvassed by many aggrieved members of the party.

According to George, “Playing politics has to do with maturity. After any election, there is a way it is being done that any party that lost, the managers of the party will honourably bow out.
“There should be civility in anything being done but in the meantime, you cannot be a judge in your case. That is legitimate, that is sensible. All the noise about people collecting money here and there, to me it should not be so.
“You do not wash your dirty linen in the public. Do you think the All Progressives Congress, APC, do not have their filthy linen? With what they (PDP leadership) have done, they are sending shivers into the spines of Nigerians.
“We are going to readjust ourselves and strengthen all the structures from the wind that just blew us. You do not go to the marketplace and start describing the name and house of your father.
“The position we arrived at, at the Ado Ekiti meeting was the consensus of the party leaders after thorough deliberations which recommended that the National Working Committee should step aside for an independent group to reshuffle the party. If they found out that they (NWC) still need to be there, they will be recalled.
“I am shocked about the reactions of the people which now became an issue on the pages of newspapers. Which party in the world that is existing without internal wrangling? It is natural and normal,” he concluded.\

Meanwhile, the National Secretary of the PDP, Professor Adewale Oladipo  has cautioned Bode George against divisive politics.