THERE are strong signals that the days of Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo as the national chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may have been numbered, considering the uncertainty surrounding the party’s primaries and the crises rocking many state chapters.

It was learnt that the authorities are highly dissatisfied with his handling of the primaries and the affairs in different states, leading to the party being factionalized.

With barely one week to the presidential primaries, Nwodo is under fire for not coming out with the right processes on how the exercise will be carried out and his alleged “subterranean moves that have continued to destabilize the state chapters.”

The national chairman is also blamed for the quantum of protests which greeted the House of Assembly primaries.

Besides, the Presidency and top echelon of the party are said to be alarmed that the party has continued to lose critical members, ranging from National and State Assembly members to other stakeholders, especially in the South-East and South-West geo-political zones.

According to a source, “it is quite unfortunate that under him (Nwodo), we have continued to lose very important members who recently defected to other parties.

“Just a few days ago, about eighteen members of our party in Anambra State alone who were either in the National or State Assembly, defected to a rival party. Not too long ago, very influential members of our party in Imo State, including a former governor, left us too.

“Ogun, PDP, has continued to boil, Oyo is torn between our key members. It was so bad that former President Olusegun Obasanjo came out to threaten that he may be forced to quit the party if the leadership fails to urgently resolve the crises rocking the party in the South-West zone.

“You see, even in his own home state (Enugu), our chairman (Nwodo) is at war with Governor Sullivan Chime who even played a role in his emergence.”

The fear of the top party guns is that it “will be counter-productive if we go into the general elections with such level of acrimonies. As we get closer to the presidential primaries, there are no clear-cut methods laid out by the leadership on how it will be conducted, including the panel members.

“I must be frank with you that if things continue this way, leaders of the party will have to come together after the primaries to ask ourselves if the present leadership can take us to the promised land. If you ask me, this is the time to think of a new direction.

“We cannot afford to go into the elections with the internal crises tearing the party into unnecessary factions in many states of the federation. We just have to act to save the party and save our candidates from the looming doom, even if Nwodo has to go. We must take decisive steps now.”