I’ve been working for PDP tirelessly since 1998 – Wike reveals his ‘pains’

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Sunday claimed he has been working tirelessly for the survival of the opposition party.

Wike said he has been working for PDP’s survival since 1998.

He said it was very painful to have contributed substantially to most governors winning their elections without demanding anything personal.

Wike, a former governor of Rivers State said this in a statement he personally signed titled: “PDP crisis: My Position.”

PDP has been engrossed in a leadership crisis since the build-up to the 2023 presidential election.

The leadership crisis led to the G-5 made up of Wike, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, ex-Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, ex-Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu, and ex-Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State working against PDP’s former presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

While Wike and three other former governors worked for President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, Ortom worked for the former Labour Party’s presidential candidate.

But the leadership crisis has since degenerated to the struggle for who occupies the office of the PDP National Secretary.

Samuel Anyanwu and Sunday Ude-Okoye have been at parallel ends over who occupies the office, but the Supreme Court had affirmed Anyanwu.

Amid the crisis, a committee led by former Senate President Bukola Saraki was set up to resolve the issue and has began moves to bring an end to the crisis in the party.

However, Wike said he has decided to pull out of an agreement reached with the party leaders.

The statement by Wike reads partly: “I have painstakingly put out all these facts so that PDP members and the general public would know the truth.

“I have been in this party since 1998 and have worked tirelessly for the survival of this party with all my strength and it is on record that none of these persons have done anything close to what I have done to sustain this party.

“What is more painful is that I contributed substantially to most of these governors winning their elections, yet I have not made any personal demands on any of them and I would never do so.

“Most importantly, I had thought that we could keep the trust amongst us, but since it is now obvious that they would continue to play games to the detriment of the party, as is the case in the current debacle in the North-Central zonal elections, I have now firmly decided to pull out of all agreements hitherto reached.”

I’ve been working for PDP tirelessly since 1998 – Wike reveals his ‘pains’