A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, has disclosed his plan on how he would have reform the main opposition party back on track especially, some renown figures in the party if he was given the opportunity to lead the party as the National Chairman.
According to Sonwumi, he would freeze the membership status of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, just like how the treatment universities give its lecturers on sabbatical if he happens to be the party’s National Chairman of PDP.
The former spokesman of the PDP’s ex-presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, was speaking on Nigeria Info FM this morning saying he wouldn’t have allowed Wike to join President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet as minister if he were the party’s National Chairman to start with.
Similarly, Sonwumi added that he would have also descended very hard on Atiku Abubakar following the reckless remarks meted by his loyalists that the PDP as a party is dead.
According to him: “If I were the National Chairman of PDP and Wike came to tell me that they have invited him to join the APC, I would have frozen his membership and treated him the way universities treat those that go on sabbatical.
“When you are on sabbatical, your membership is frozen, and when you return, it’s activated. By freezing his membership that means you can’t be in charge of the party’s structure either in Rivers or anywhere. You can’t attend our meetings, and if you return, we are going to give you three months for debriefing so that you can dump all the jargon you learned from them.
“There is no way on earth I would have allowed him to serve in the APC and still sit as a member and an authority in the party. I would not have allowed that as Chairman because it would have been wrong.
“I’m not disrespectfully saying this, but that is the proper thing a futurist political party will do.
“If I were the National Chairman, right now I would have been very hard on Atiku by sending him a very clear message—call your dogs to order. You can’t insist that Damagum is in acting capacity and then the party is dead. I won’t allow that” Sonwumi concluded.
