According to Kabiru Turaki, the US president is urged to intervene in the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) internal crisis, claiming that the country’s democracy is in danger.  ,
In the midst of a fight between his organization and another led by Samuel Anyanwu, Turaki, the PDP’s national chairman, made the appeal on Tuesday at the party’s secretariat in Wadata Plaza, Abuja.
“I want to tell President Trump that he should step up and save Nigeria’s democracy because what is at stake is not just genocide against Christians.” I’m calling on all other developed countries, all advanced democracies, to come and save Nigeria, according to Turaki.
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Prior to that, when rival organizations and their supporters fought at the party’s secretariat, things started to get chaotic. At first, they were denied entry to the venue, but Governors Bala Mohammed of Bauchi and Seyi Makinde, one of their Oyo State counterparts, arrived.
Turaki and his entourage later gained access to the secretariat despite having to use teargas to disperse the crowd.
The PDP chieftain stated in a statement to the media that he had taken over as the party’s national chairman following the incident.
He said, “We have driven them out of the secretariat, and I have entered my office, I have assumed leadership as the elected chairman,” promising to uphold democracy.
He declared that despite the crisis, the “PDP is back on course” and that “we shall continue to be the vanguards of democracy.”
We were tear-gassed, and I believe more than 50 canisters of tear gas have been shot at us, Turaki said, narrating what transpired. But we kept going and will continue to keep going.”
A group from the party in Ibadan, Oyo State, convened a group, and Tuesday’s incident was the result.
Turaki was chosen alongside other executive members to lead the PDP at the convention.
Nyesom Wike, the FCT’s minister, Ayodele Fayose, Samuel Anyanwu, and others were fired.
The Wike-supporting organization, however, has nevertheless labeled the Ibadan convention a “jamboree.”
In fact, it removed Bode George, Makinde, and other party chieftains who attended the Ibadan convention, giving the PDP crisis a new lease of life.
Source: Channels TV
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