APC Is In Crisis, PDP Situation Worse – Wali

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Kingsley Wenenda Wali on Friday admitted that the ruling party has an internal crisis.

Wali, however, stated that the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2023 general election is the worst.

He called on the Rivers State chapter of the party to review the reason why its members are defecting to the PDP.

Speaking on the crisis in PDP, he said under the APC, the party has not gotten to the point where its presidential candidate is having issues with a governor or more.

Wali further stated that despite the crisis in PDP being worse, the APC has to admit that the house is not in order and needs to put structure in place before the 2023 race.

Wali interview with Leadership in Port Harcourt said, “APC has a problem, but PDP has the worst problem. Look at the national and state levels, there is so much bitterness in the system.

“If you have a situation where a state government is commissioning projects, hosting members of the opposition with fanfare, then, something is very wrong with the system.

“I don’t know whether it is the governor’s fault or the party’s fault, but something is wrong. In APC, we have not gotten to that point where our presidential candidate is having problems with one or two governors of his party.

“Let me quickly admit that one, a couple of people have left the party for the political party in power. These are people who are members of a family but at some point in time, they now felt that they were no longer stakeholders and they didn’t believe that the system was accommodating them enough.

“So, they had to seek greener pastures. I will not deny them that right and I will be the last person to criticize a man for choosing because whatever the consequences of that choice are, it is going to deal with them.
What am I trying to say here; adults sat down, took decisions and moved on. And they left adults behind.

“So, what is needed of the All Progressives Congress now is to sit down and do some kind of audit; to ask themselves, why did these guys leave? It is no longer they shouldn’t leave; it should be why did they leave? You tell yourselves the truth. When you come to the truth, then, you will find solutions to them.

“That is why I said the APC has to come to terms with reality and having addressed those realities of people who have left and why they left, and its effects on the party decide to put things together to make sure that the party is better structured to confront the 2023 election.”