A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan has made an allegation against the All Progressives Congress.
He alleged that governors elected on the platform of the PDP are being harassed to join the All Progressives Congress.
Ologbondiyan made this allegation in the wake of the recent meeting between President Bola Tinubu, the suspended Governor of Rivers State, Sim Fubara, and Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.
Recall that in March, following the lingering political conflict between Fubara and Wike, his predecessor, President Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers, and suspended the governor, his deputy, Ngozi Odu, and the State House of Assembly.
The President, however, on Sunday, resolved and united Fubara and Wike in a closed-door meeting, after which they took a photograph smiling.
Meanwhile, two PDP governors, Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State and Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom, have dumped the PDP for the APC.
Both governors cited the crisis in the PDP as the main reason for their defection.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Tuesday, Ologbondiyan dismissed the narrative that the PDP crisis triggers defection to the APC.
According to him, governors elected on the platform of the PDP are being harassed into joining the ruling party ahead of the 2027 election.
