A former Minister of Transport, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, on Wednesday said governors under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are trying to destroy the party through their actions.

Speaking shortly after an emergency National Executive Committee meeting in Port Harcourt after the disruption of its National Convention by the police and soldiers, Babatope, who is a member of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) said the governors are doing all within their means to foist a former governorship candidate of the party in Lagos state, Jimi Agbaje, on them as the national chairman of the party.

Speaking further, Babatope said a fresh battle has started in the PDP which the governors and those scheming to cause the downfall of the party will never forget in their life.

“The governors want to destroy the party. They are bringing a boy (Agbaje) who has not been a member of the party for two years as candidate and they want to do everything within their power to foist him on us as national chairman. But God has dealt with them”.

“A fresh battle has just started within the PDP and it is a battle they will never forget in their life. We are coming back to Lagos to sit down and analyse what is happening to PDP. We will point accusing fingers at those who want to destroy our party,” he said.