By PHILIP YATAI

Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, says the national convention of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will hold on March 29 and March 30 as scheduled.

Wike stated this while interacting with newsmen after inspecting some ongoing projects within the FCT on Friday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Wike’s response followed calls from some stakeholders for postponement of the convention to give time for reconciling the Tanimu Turaki-led faction with that of Abdulrahman Mohammed, being supported by the minister.

The minister said that discussions on reconciliation could continue after the convention, adding that holding the convention does not necessarily preclude reconciliation.

“The PDP national convention will go on as planned. Nobody will stop us,” he said, insisting there’s no faction in PDP but only aggrieved members.

Wike said that he had met with Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi over the planned convention and told him that the convention had to go on.

“People are angry, yes. When a child is angry, well, you will try to see how you can pacify him, but that does not mean that you will allow the child to destroy the house that you have built,” he stated. (NAN)

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