What Would Happen If I Leave PDP – Wike

Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and former governor of Rivers State, has stated that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria’s main opposition party, will face a “tsunami” if he decides to leave.

“If today I say I will move to another party, it will be a tsunami but we have said we are going to remain where we are,”  Wike said on Saturday, suggesting an exodus of party members from PDP if he dumped the party.

At the PDP secretariat in Port Harcourt during the party’s state congress, Wike warned that he would “put fire” in PDP-governed states if their governors interfered with party affairs in Rivers.

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On August 23, PDP governors meeting in Jalingo, Taraba State, expressed support for Governor Siminalayi Fubara amidst the state crisis, urging the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) to recognize Fubara’s leadership and review the outcomes of recent party congresses in Rivers State, which were dominated by Wike’s loyalists.

Fubara’s supporters had boycotted the congresses due to a court order.

Wike declared that he and his allies would not allow anyone to take over the PDP structure in Rivers.

“Let me assure all of you, not when we live will anybody take away the structure of the PDP from us. But let me tell people, I hear some governors say they will take over the structure and give it back to somebody,”  Wike said, apparently referring to Governor Fubara as the “somebody”.

“I pity those governors because I will put fire in their states. When God has given you peace, you say you don’t want peace – anything you see, you take (it),” he added.

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The political rift between Governor Fubara and his predecessor, Wike, has deeply divided the Rivers PDP, creating two distinct factions.

Wike’s complete control over the party structure in the state and the national leadership’s failure to address this issue have fueled rumors that Fubara might be considering leaving the party on which he was elected.

These speculations intensified after Fubara informed visiting senators in Port Harcourt that he and his supporters were “not doing party.”

“The party has failed us here,” Fubara told members of the Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation.

Again, Fubara, while receiving members of the PDP Board of Trustees (BOT) who visited him in Port Harcourt last month said he had at some point doubted his membership of the party.

“Honestly, if I was having any doubt about my membership first of this great party, I think today, I have gotten a reconfirmation that I am still, not minding the drama around, a member of the party,”Fubara told the BOT members.

The governor dismissed speculations of his exit from the party as “a mere rumour and propaganda.”

“So, for those people outside who are carrying all sorts of rumours and propaganda, at least, this visit will put those propaganda to rest, and to tell the people that we are and we will remain members of the PDP,” he said.