Wike Surrounded By Expired Politicians – CP-PDP
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ABUJA – Criticism, knock and condemnation have continued to trail the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike’s meeting with some former members of G-5, the embattled National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Samuel Anyanwu and other stakeholders of the party on Monday.
Some of the former members, who met with Wike in Abuja are; former governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom, former governor of Enugu state, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, former governor of Abia state, Okezie Ikpiazu, and other stakeholders of the party in Abuja.
The Wike’s group, in their communique on Sunday after their meeting had warned that PDP is on an “inevitable path to self-annihilation” unless urgent steps are taken to halt the rising tide of impunity and disregard for its constitution, key party stakeholders have warned.
The group had also in its resolution reaffirmed Senator Anyanwu as the duly elected and substantive National Secretary of the PDP, urging the party to immediately comply with relevant sections of its constitution particularly Sections 36, 47, and 48 as well as the Supreme Court ruling on the matter.
The group, which said that PDP must zone its 2027 presidential ticket to the South to correct the past errors after eight unbroken years of Northern presidency under Muhammadu Buhari, warned that “only the National Secretary, Senator Sam Anyanwu, can issue notices for the National Convention, NEC, Caucus and the NWC. All actions not anchored on his authority, including correspondences to INEC, are null and void and of no effect whatsoever.”
Reacting to this development, the PDP Deputy National Youth Leader, Timothy Osadolor said if Wike has critical ideas to share with the party, he should channel them through the party Acting National Chairman, Amb. Umar Damagum or the party leadership.
This is even as the Conference of Professional in PDP said that having lost the followership of genuine and respected PDP members, Wike is now surrounded by expired, feeding bottle politicians, who have been roundly rejected by their own people as demonstrated in their disgraceful defeat in the 2023 elections.
Osadolor said: “PDP is in a stage where all hands must be on deck to push the fortunes of the party forward. We must be very careful of leprosy hands and leprosy fingers so that the good hands will not get infested.
“If Wike wants to work for the party or he wants to have critical ideas to share with the party, I am sure he knows the office of the National Chairman and the National Working Committee (NWC) hall where he can engage the leadership of the party.”
He said he has no issue with Wike meeting with people as former governor and stakeholder, who has friend in the PDP, adding, “as a former governor and a stakeholder who has friends in the party he has the right to meet and gather under any atmosphere and any other acronym. But the decisions about the party remains at the leadership of the party, so, if there is meeting as a support group to support the party I wish them well.
“And I believe that it will not be out of order but if there are undertone, I use the opportunity to tell them to desist from it, because at the end of the day the party having met at the last NEC meeting and we are looking forward to meet again by month ending all things being equal.
“But again we welcome all suggestions and ideas, if they have a communique or resolutions as concerned party members speaking, let them communicate that by way of writing to the leadership of the party so that we can meet for possible consideration and in our NEC meeting and all of that.”
Speaking on the position of Anyanwu, the Deputy Youth Leader said, “let it be on record, I am not one of those who want Anyanwu out as national secretary, I am not in support of what he is going through and I am also not in support of what he has started doing recently but that doesn’t make him blind to the fact that until he is removed totally at a strength by the rules of the constitution of the party he is still the National Secretary of PDP but again that does not deviate from the fact that the Chairman exclusively has the right to call for any meeting and that meeting that was called the last time was properly called a NEC meeting.”
CP-PDP, on its part dismissed the PDP stakeholders’ meeting organised by Wike in Abuja on Sunday, describing the meeting and the pronouncements of the actors as the feeble kick of a dying partisan group, whose failed purpose, as agents of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is to destabilize, weaken and wreck opposition ahead of the decisive 2027 general elections.
CP-PDP, in a statement by National Coordinator, Barr. Obinna Nwachukwu, reminded the Wike’s group that its agenda have permanently come to naught as the PDP, at its 99th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting successfully held on 27th May, 2025, effectively reinforced its unity, reinvented and opened up all its channels for a cohesive working system as a leading opposition party and any attempt by anybody or group to drag the party into crisis again would be an effort in futility.
“The FCT Minister and his group, which is best described as ‘Tinubu Support Group,’ must accept the reality that the train has since left the station; the PDP is ascending in new trajectory focusing on taking back power in 2027 in the collective interest of all Nigerians and no amount of ranting from unpatriotic and disgruntled individuals or groups can sway this resolve.
“Moreover, is it not appalling that an individual who is neither an official nor a member of the PDP having lost membership upon open cessation of subscription, loyalty and adherence to the mandatory Code of Conduct of members is grandstanding in an unstructured group and attempting to pontificate and sound off on the activities of our party?
“Having lost the followership of genuine and respected PDP members, the FCT Minister is now surrounded by expired, feeding bottle politicians who have been roundly rejected by their own people as demonstrated in their disgraceful defeat in the 2023 elections.
“Of course, there is no genuine member of the PDP who, seeing the pains and agony that Nigerians are passing through in the hands of the APC will in anyway associate with any plot to render the PDP ineffectual ahead of 2027 elections.
“In any event, the FCT Minister should come to terms with the fact that the PDP is not the appendage of, or the Ministry of the FCT where his boss, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed him to oversee. We again counsel the FCT Minister to leave the PDP alone and stay with his allies in the APC where he has openly pitched his political tent,” the PDP group said.
The CP-PDP said that the party remains strong and focused particularly towards a successful National Convention in August in the determination to present a formidable front for Nigerians to push out the APC and restore a people-oriented government on the platform of the PDP.
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