Fani-Kayode said this in an interview with reporters in Abuja, on Tuesday.
He explained that because of the enormous respect he has for President Goodluck Jonathan, he restrained himself from exposing the shady deals allegedly committed by some members of the NWC.
The director noted that despite its back-stabbing and failure to live up to the party’s expectations, the NWC members engaged in a series of acts of sabotage to undermine the campaign council.
The Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has insisted that the Adamu Mu’azu-led National Working Committee must go for the party to bounce back.
Fani-Kayode said this in an interview with reporters in Abuja, on Tuesday.
He explained that because of the enormous respect he has for President Goodluck Jonathan, he restrained himself from exposing the shady deals allegedly committed by some members of the NWC.
The director noted that despite its back-stabbing and failure to live up to the party’s expectations, the NWC members engaged in a series of acts of sabotage to undermine the campaign council.
Attempts to get a reaction from the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, were unsuccessful.
When contacted, the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Abdullahi Jalo, referred our correspondent to Metuh.
Fani-Kayode said, “We need a new leadership that is open, kind, fair-minded and accommodating and in order to achieve that, I must add my voice to that of a number of governors and other key stakeholders and leaders in our party, who have said that the party’s National Working Committee must go.
“Sadly the NWC has become a cog in the wheel of progress. They have much to learn from what the leadership of the Labour Party and the Liberal Democratic Party did in the United Kingdom just a couple of weeks ago when they resigned a few hours after losing the election to the Conservatives.
“They resigned with honour and no one had to ask them to go or call for their resignation. They did the right and proper thing because they are well educated people who have honour. Sadly, the NWC members lack education and honour, otherwise they would have resigned by now.”
He said he was on the same page with Governors Aliyu Babaginda, Sule Lamido, Ayodele Fayose and other party leaders who are insisting on the need to have a change at the top “if the PDP is serious about forging party unity, restoring its fortunes, redeeming itself and winning any election in 2019.”
According to him, he decided to keep the evidence of double dealing on the part of two prominent members of the PDP NWC to himself in order not to rock the boat.
He dismissed allegations that he contributed to Jonathan’s defeat through hate campaigns.
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