The camp of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s 2023 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar camp has said expelling the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike is a must-do task.
Don Pedro Obaseki, the Director of Research, Strategy, and Documentation of PDP insisted that Wike’s expulsion must be done for the survival of the party.
Wike and Atiku Abubakar should be suspended or expelled from the party, according to Obaseki.
In an interview with journalists in Abuja, he stated that Atiku’s numerous criticisms of the party, along with his repeated acts of betrayal, warranted his removal.
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Obaseki also pointed out that, the former Rivers State Governor has played a significant role in the internal conflicts of the PDP due to his excessive ambition to secure the party’s Presidential nomination.
Furthermore, Obaseki mentioned that Wike has been distraught ever since his unsuccessful attempts to manipulate the party’s leadership and secure the nomination for his preferred candidate, Uche Secondus.
He said;
“Wike was (/is) the problem of the PDP and to expel Wike now is a task that must be done by the PDP.”
The Director also spoke of Wike’s call for Atiku’s expulsion from the PDP.
On that, he said:
”The person who deserves to be expelled from the party is the man who is calling for the expulsion of others from the party.
“Wike is the one who created a cult within the party and called it the G-5. Against the will, constitution and structures of the party, he campaigned against the party.
“If anybody had done anything anti-party, it is Nyesom Wike. He has fought every known person within the party.
“If you remember, Bello Matawalle, former Governor of Zamfara State cited him as the reason for leaving the party. Dave Umahi cited him as the reason for leaving the party.
“Professor Ben Ayade cited him as the reason for leaving the party. Why is it that in the wake of Nyesom Wike, he has become the proverbial tortoise in every bad story?
“Wike has crossed the red line and now, he should be ready. He has all the money to fight us back because we are coming at him like a thousand bricks.
“He has unleashed the dogs of war and we will not sit back and watch him ride roughshod over the party and majority of Nigerians like he did for 8 years over the humility of the Rivers people. That can no longer suffice.”
He pointed out that the Minister’s claim that he was fighting the party over violations of its own zoning rules was nothing more than a cheap threat.
According to him, the former Rivers State governor had challenges and plans from 2021 and the PDP would not shift its presidential candidate south for the 2023 elections.
Obaseki said;
“The party never said power should go to the South because it was the turn the South in the PDP but it was the turn of the South in the APC.
“Since 1999, we have had six elections. The PDP had given four times out of that six to the South. Two times to Olusegun Obasanjo and two times to Goodluck Jonathan.
“But the party has given two out of six to the North. Once to Yar’ Adua and once to Atiku. I made a presentation to the governors in December 2021 in Asaba and Nyesom Wike did not agree because he wanted a situation where the primaries would be thrown open.
“He wasn’t campaigning but I was campaigning for the South-East and the North-East because they were the only zone that are yet to rule our country since January 15, 1966, outside the South-East that had six months hiatus with General Aguiyi Ironsi.
“Wike, knowing that he’s just less than 106km away from Otuoke in the home state of Jonathan had no moral right to want to run for the presidency when the immediate Southern President and the last President of the PDP was from the same former Rivers State with him. Wike was fighting a cause that was for himself in an attempt to prepare the ground for his eventual running.”
Furthermore, he maintained that the fight to reclaim the stolen party mandate that has been referred to the Supreme Court will continue to its logical conclusion because Nigerians have better rights.
