Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has taken aim at a faction within the Peoples Democratic Party over its protest at the United States Embassy in Abuja, describing the action as disgraceful and deeply misplaced. He said the demonstration exposed how far the party’s internal crisis has degenerated, especially among those he accused of mismanaging its affairs.
In his reaction, Fayose mocked the idea of dragging a foreign mission into what he sees as a self-inflicted political mess. He questioned why party members would stand outside the U.S. Embassy with placards as though America had any duty to settle disputes caused by internal disobedience and power struggles within the PDP. For him, the decision reflected confusion, desperation, and a refusal to confront the real sources of the crisis at home.
The former governor reserved particular criticism for the camp loyal to suspended National Chairman Umar Iliya Damagum. He portrayed the protest as the final act of a leadership group that has lost both direction and legitimacy. Rather than solve problems, Fayose suggested that the faction has only deepened the turmoil through conduct he described as reckless and constitutionally flawed. According to Gossip News Now, he sees the latest demonstration as another example of a leadership bloc trying to shift blame for damage it helped create.
Fayose also faulted the group for ignoring judicial and constitutional processes within the party. He argued that only days earlier, the court had made it clear that certain internal steps still needed to be completed before any national convention could validly go ahead. Instead of returning to address those issues and seek unity, he said the faction chose to suspend key officers and worsen tensions within the National Working Committee.
Another point of his criticism focused on what he described as the group’s disregard for the PDP’s own rules regarding legal representation. Fayose maintained that the constitution already defines who has authority to act for the party in legal matters, yet the faction continued to act as though those provisions did not exist. To him, this pattern of selective obedience lies at the heart of the party’s present disorder.
He insisted that the fallout from such impunity should not be turned into an international drama. In his view, the United States has no role in resolving consequences that sprang from poor internal judgment, personal ambition, and disregard for party order. By trying to gain sympathy abroad, he argued, the faction only made itself look weaker and more disconnected from the real work of rebuilding trust within the party.
Fayose’s remarks come at a time when the PDP remains sharply divided, with rival camps still battling over leadership, procedure, and legitimacy. His intervention adds yet another strong voice to the internal war, but it also reinforces a broader concern that the opposition party is becoming increasingly consumed by public confrontation instead of political recovery.
Commentary and Analysis
Fayose’s criticism is striking because it goes beyond condemning a single protest; it speaks to a wider frustration with how the PDP’s crisis is being handled. By ridiculing the protest at the U.S. Embassy, he is effectively saying the party’s internal conflict has now drifted into spectacle. That is damaging for an opposition force trying to convince the public it is ready for serious national leadership.
The deeper issue is perception. Once a party begins to project its internal quarrels through protests at foreign missions, it risks looking less like a disciplined political organisation and more like a fractured group struggling for relevance. Fayose appears to understand that danger. His comments suggest that the real battle facing the PDP is not only about who controls its structure, but whether it can still recover enough coherence to be taken seriously by Nigerians.
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