Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Mustapha Muhammad Inuwa, has asserted that the crisis rocking the party at the national and state level was lately fuelled by the FCT minister, Nyesom Wike, and former Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom.

Inuwa, the campaign director of Atiku/Lado in Katsina State during the 2023 general elections, made this known at a stakeholders’ meeting in Katsina where issues about the party’s crisis in the state were discussed.

A former national secretary of the PDP, Umar Ibrahim Tsauri, who chaired the meeting, vowed to do anything possible to salvage the party in Katsina before the upcoming congresses.

Also speaking at the meeting, Inuwa said Wike and Ortom are destabilising the opposition party in favour of President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 election.

He said, “It is a common knowledge that both Wike and Ortom have declared that they have no presidential candidate to support in the 2027 elections, but they endorsed President Tinubu.

“Their main aim was not to win election but to weaken the party (PDP) ahead of the 2027 election in favour of President Tinubu and that is why they are using stooges in the state to fulfil their mission.” 

Recall that some stakeholders in Katsina have accused a faction led by the 2023 governorship candidate, Yakubu Lado Danmarke, with the backing of the state caretaker committee appointed by the national working committee, of concealing the party Congresses forms.