A two-term National Ex-Officio of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, David Vaughan, says party’s founding fathers and the Board of Trustees, BoT, must urgently intervene in the lingering leadership crisis threatening the party’s survival ahead of the 2027 elections.
Vaughan, who was also a PDP governorship aspirant in Lagos State in 2023, made the call on Tuesday in Lagos.
He warned that unresolved internal disputes and factional struggles could further weaken the party and jeopardise its chances in the elections.
“Political problems are better settled politically because politics may take a lifetime, but the life span of an event in political calculation can be very short.
“We don’t even have the time in PDP to ignore or do otherwise. The time we have now is for us to find a way around our current leadership problems.
“The Board of Trustees has a strong hold, they should find a way to come together since they always have a mechanism of solving their internal problems.
“The Board of Trustees should rise above inducements and wade in and intervene with honesty. We cannot continue like this. The BoT should wake up from sleep,” Vaughan said.
According to him, the same people who joined hands to work against the party under the G-5 in 2023 are the ones fighting among themselves now.
Vaughan said the party’s failure to manage its crisis politically cost it victory in the 2023 presidential election.
According to him, the divisions between camps loyal to Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, had continued to polarise members.
