The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike has been encouraged by a group called PDP Frontiers for Change and Progress to persuade President Bola Tinubu to join the PDP, claiming that doing so would demonstrate the minister’s allegiance to the umbrella organization.
The group made this claim in Umuahia on Tuesday in response to a statement attributed to the FCT Minister in which he purportedly criticized Adolphus Wabara, the chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT), for his remarks lauding the accomplishments of Abia State Governor Alex Otti.
The group’s national coordinator, Emeka Ikpegbu, challenged the former River State governor to persuade President Bola Tinubu to join the PDP in order to unquestionably solidify his allegiance to the party. He said that Wabara had done nothing wrong in attempting to win Governor Alex Otti over to the PDP.
“Wike should first bring his principal, President Bola Tinubu, who he praises everyday to the PDP before preaching to us about anti-party.
“Is there any anti-party as bad as a former Governor and a presidential aspirant in PDP serving as a Minister under APC? How many times has Wike publicly praised President Tinubu yet nobody has sanctioned him for anti-party.
“Why will he begin to lecture us now on how to sanction members for anti-party?” He queried.
In addition to telling Wike to leave Wabara and PDP governors alone, the group praised the governors and the party’s board of trustees for their unwavering position in the political crisis in Rivers State and for upholding Sunday Ude-Okoye as the party’s national secretary in accordance with the ruling of the Enugu Court of Appeal.
Party members were advised to oppose any attempt to intimidate those working to save and reposition the party by the group, which forecast a better future for the PDP in 2027.
