Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, a former presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, believes that the party’s salvation is a futile endeavour.
Speaking during an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’ on Tuesday, Olawepo-Hashim said he had given up on the battle.
He said he supported reconciling factions in the party but would not be part of a process that coronates the incumbent.
Recall that he recently quit the PDP after giving several reasons.
“The PDP has now degenerated into a party in the pockets of a PDP minister who is working with the opposition. I give up; it is a lost battle trying to save the PDP.
“Well, I was still open that we should be able to reconcile the party up till when the FCT Minister Nyesom Wike’s faction had their own convention.
“I was optimistic that the agreement in principle that were breached among the parties, even before the Appeal Court judgment, which was, let’s harmonize the true executive.
“We will have a Joint National Executive Committee meeting, and then if you are going to have any convention at all, it was going to be a unity convention that basically ratifies the harmonized list.
“But by the time the Wike’s group went into their own convention, they did their own thing basically from top to bottom.
“Now that was not the huge challenge for me, but there was this loud noise that they were going to ratify the incumbent President, Bola Tinubu for 2027,” he said.
