I’m not part of PDP crisis -Jonathan

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has stated he has no hands in the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The PDP has been dogged by crisis over the demand of five Governors elected on the party that the national chairman Senator Iyorchia Ayu should resign.

The G-five Governor’s comprising Nyesom Wike (Rivers); Seyi Makinde (Oyo); Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu); Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Samuel Ortom(Benue) said they won’t back the presidential candidate of the party Atiku Abubakar except Ayu resigns.

Former Benue Governor Gabriel Suswam, on Thursday hinted that Jonathan has been drafted to resolve the crisis.

But the former President in a statement by his Media Adviser, Ikechukwu Eze, denied having anything to do with the crisis rocking the party.

He said: “Our attention has been drawn to news media and social media reports linking former President Dr Goodluck Jonathan’s name to the current troubles in the Peoples Democratic Party with a false claim that the aggrieved PDP governors are demonstrating their loyalty to him.

“We are also not unmindful of the fact that, this being an electioneering season, bizarre tales are often contrived, propagated and weaponised to either smear others or deliver cheap political advantage to the purveyors.

“First, we would like to make the point that it is not out of place if there were crises in a political party like the PDP and a former President, who served under the party’s platform, is called upon to intervene. That being the case, we initially did not see anything wrong with the headlines in some papers, indicating that the former President was being persuaded to help resolve the issues in the party.