Eko Hot Blog reports that senior figures in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) loyal to Vice-President Atiku Abubakar are pushing for David Mark, former senate president, to assume the chairmanship of the party.
According to TheCable, sources claimed that Mark is believed to have the capacity to deal with “renegade” party members who are involved in “anti-party activities”.
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The PDP has been without a substantive chairman since March 2023 with the ouster of Iyorchia Ayu, also a former senate president, following his suspension at the ward level of the party in Benue state. Interestingly, Ayu and Mark are both from Benue state.
Umar Ililya Damagum became the acting national chairman but the Atiku camp is reportedly uncomfortable with him as he is seen to be close to Nyesom Wike, former governor of Rivers state and now minister of federal capital territory in the All Progressives Congress (APC) government.
Atiku’s biggest supporters — Sule Lamido, former governor of Jigawa, Babangida Aliyu, former governor of Niger, and Adamu Maina Waziri, former minister — once tried to moved against the acting chairman but pulled back because of a possible backlash.
Wike, who lost the presidential primary to Atiku in May 2022, led a group of five governors that openly opposed Atiku in the 2023 presidential election.
“You would expect the PDP to have suspended or expelled Wike by now for his anti-party activities, worsened by his acceptance of a ministerial appointment from a rival party,” a former governor told TheCable.
“But it is very clear that the national working committee is in Wike’s pocket, so we should not expect any form of discipline in the party.” he said.
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Mark, a retired brigadier, former military governor of Niger state and former ministry of communication, is a founding member of PDP and has never defected from the party.
He unsuccessfully ran against Atiku for the party’s presidential ticket in 2019.
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