The Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party has set up a committee to reconcile its presidential candidate for the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State.
BoT member, Senator Abdul Ningi, disclosed this while briefing newsmen at the end of its meeting on Wednesday in Abuja.
Ningi, who did not disclose the time frame for the committee, said it was expected to interface between warring factions so as to restore peace.
He said: “We have set up a committee to interface between warring factions, particularly the acrimony brewing between the presidential candidate and Governor Wike.
“It is a committee of the whole.
“Every other BoT member is a member of the committee.
“I cannot tell you the grievances and the time frame.”
There have been reported internal crisis within the PDP since the outcome of the party’s national convention that produced Abubakar as the party presidential candidate and the emergence of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State as his running mate.
Wike was considered alongside Okowa for the running mate slot.
On requests that National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, should step down, Ningi said the matter was not discussed.