The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has announced that Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, will be subject to disciplinary action for alleged anti-party activities.
The deputy national publicity secretary of the party, Ibrahim Abdullahi, stated this in a media chat on Monday, September 2, 2024..
The PDP has reportedly sent a letter to Wike inviting him to come before the disciplinary committee established by the party’s National Working Committee.
“Three weeks ago, we put up two committees in place, that of reconciliation and disciplinary, and Nyesom Wike is one of the persons to face the disciplinary committee, which is headed by elder statesman Chief Tom Ikimi,” Abdullahi said.
“The disciplinary committee will look into issues of anti-party activities. We’ve been receiving petitions regarding anti-party activities or sabotaging the party throughout the primary, leading to where we are now. These petitions against Wike and other party members have been aggregated and sent to the committee.
“Some party members even felt that Wike shouldn’t have gotten to this level still as a member of the PDP and they have been writing to the leadership.”
Wike made a threat over the weekend to cause a political crisis in the state of PDP governors who dare interfere in the party’s affair in Rivers State.
The threat was made by the former Rivers State governor at the PDP secretariat in Port Harcourt while the party was holding its state congress on Saturday, August 31, 2024.
“Let me assure all of you, not while we live will anybody take away the structure of PDP from us. But let me tell people, I hear some governors who say they will take over the structure and give back to 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,” Wike had threatened.
Responding to Wike’s threat to PDP governors, Abdullahi stated that the party is let down by the minister’s statement, stating that it is incorrect and unacceptable.
“Wike should be able to manage his words carefully; that was a very disappointing remark. We weren’t expecting him to say that, and to be honest with you, we are not with him on that,” Abdullahi said.
According to Abdullahi, the FCT minister was merely providing false hope to his supporters, particularly the dissatisfied lawmakers of the state House of Assembly who have lost their seats.
“In my own view, I only see it as a message of hope to his already disgruntled supporters who he has for over the time made several promises to on what will become their fate in the state, which has never worked out.
“We recall that he promised the former local government chairmen that their tenures would be elongated by six months, today they are no longer in office. The assembly people who he advised to cross the carpet to the APC have lost their seats.
“So, it is just a message of hope so that it won’t look as if they’ve lost out completely. But it will be good if the security agencies prove that they mean well for the country, to step into such utterances and investigate anybody, somebody that has made such kind of utterances because it’s a direct affront to the security of Nigeria.
“When you threaten state governors and you promise them that they will never sleep in their states, you promise them that they will never do governance again all they will face is crisis, it’s a serious issue.”
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