{"id":139528,"date":"2024-11-21T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-will-regain-stamina-if-tinubu-sacks-wike-atikus-ex-aide-segun-sowunmi-2"},"modified":"2024-11-21T12:37:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T11:37:13","slug":"pdp-will-regain-stamina-if-tinubu-sacks-wike-atikus-ex-aide-segun-sowunmi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-will-regain-stamina-if-tinubu-sacks-wike-atikus-ex-aide-segun-sowunmi-2","title":{"rendered":"PDP will regain stamina if Tinubu sacks Wike \u2013 Atiku\u2019s ex-aide Segun Sowunmi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former spokesman of Atiku Abubakar, Segun Sowunmi, has identified President Bola Tinubu as the major cause of the party\u2019s problem.<\/p>\n<p>Sowunmi said Tinubu has no business appointing Nyesom Wike Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, without consulting with the elders of PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring on Channels TV\u2019s Politics Today, the former spokesman of Atiku said sanity would return to PDP if Tinubu were to sack Wike and cause him to return to the party.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sowunmi: \u201cPresident Tinubu is the problem of the PDP; he has no business taking Wike from our party and appointing him as Minister without talking to us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Obasanjo wanted to form a government of national unity, he wrote to the elders of the party but what did Tinubu do? He took one of us and put him in a strategic position and suddenly the whole thing is complicated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he wants everything to be okay, sack Wike and return him back to PDP and see if the party will not have stamina and move fast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy position is very clear; I\u2019m not speaking Greek; I explained it and justified it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former spokesman of Atiku Abubakar, Segun Sowunmi, has identified President Bola Tinubu as the major cause of the party\u2019s problem. Sowunmi said Tinubu has no business appointing Nyesom Wike Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, without consulting with the elders of PDP. 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