Efforts to reconcile the fractured Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are encountering significant hurdles, as stakeholders from warring factions have laid out a list of stringent conditions for any lasting peace.
Key issues under negotiation include the party’s national structure, the potential for another national convention, public apologies, and broad internal reforms.
The party has been locked in a paralysing internal crisis since late 2025, split between two competing National Working Committees (NWC). One faction is led by Tanimu Turaki (SAN), elected as National Chairman at the party’s national convention in Ibadan on November 16.
The other is led by Abdulrahman Mohammed, who claims the position of acting National Chairman with the backing of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.
Members from both camps, speaking anonymously due to lack of authorisation, confirmed to newsmen that reconciliation talks are still in preliminary stages.
Options are now being considered range from convening a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting to the drastic step of organising a fresh national convention, a move that would showcase the depth of the impasse.
