{"id":15316,"date":"2019-09-11T16:34:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=15316"},"modified":"2019-09-11T16:35:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:35:30","slug":"pdp-committee-on-emergence-of-elumelu-as-minority-leader-most-corrupt-wike-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-committee-on-emergence-of-elumelu-as-minority-leader-most-corrupt-wike-alleges","title":{"rendered":"PDP Committee on Emergence of Elumelu as Minority Leader Most Corrupt, Wike Alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike<\/a>, has lambasted the Committee set up by the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP<\/a>) to investigate the emergence of Ndudi Elumelu as the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, alleging that the committee is the most corrupt in the history of the party.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Port Harcourt Wednesday, Wike thanked Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Austin Opara, for withdrawing from the committee by not allowing himself to be entangled in what he described as the \u201cillegal outcome\u201d of the committee\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThe Committee set up by the PDP on the illegal emergence of Ndudi Elumelu is the most corrupt committee ever set up by the party.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank our worthy son, Rt Hon Austin Opara, for withdrawing from that committee, so that he is not entangled in the illegal activities of the tainted committee \u201c.<\/p>\n

Wike warned the party not to toy with Rivers State as it is not in the interest of the party to do so.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWe are warning PDP to be careful not to toy with Rivers State. Rivers State has all it takes to withstand the PDP and fight the party to a standstill.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rivers State Governor is not one of those Governors that anyone can cajole.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rivers State Governor is not one of those Governors that will kowtow to their illicit activities\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has lambasted the Committee set up by the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) to investigate the emergence of Ndudi Elumelu as the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, alleging that the committee is the most corrupt in the history of the party. Speaking in Port Harcourt Wednesday, Wike thanked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":15317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[41,65,454],"class_list":["post-15316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-corruption","tag-pdp","tag-wike"],"yoast_head":"\nPDP Committee on Emergence of Elumelu as Minority Leader Most Corrupt, Wike Alleges - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has lambasted the Committee set up by the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) to investigate the emergence\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-committee-on-emergence-of-elumelu-as-minority-leader-most-corrupt-wike-alleges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP Committee on Emergence of Elumelu as Minority Leader Most Corrupt, Wike Alleges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has lambasted the Committee set up by the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) to investigate the emergence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-committee-on-emergence-of-elumelu-as-minority-leader-most-corrupt-wike-alleges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-11T16:34:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-09-11T16:35:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/b9ebe175-nyesom-wike-2-696x385.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"385\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-committee-on-emergence-of-elumelu-as-minority-leader-most-corrupt-wike-alleges#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-committee-on-emergence-of-elumelu-as-minority-leader-most-corrupt-wike-alleges\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"PDP Committee on Emergence of Elumelu as Minority Leader Most Corrupt, Wike Alleges\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-09-11T16:34:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-09-11T16:35:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-committee-on-emergence-of-elumelu-as-minority-leader-most-corrupt-wike-alleges\"},\"wordCount\":245,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-committee-on-emergence-of-elumelu-as-minority-leader-most-corrupt-wike-alleges#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/b9ebe175-nyesom-wike-2-696x385.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"corruption\",\"PDP\",\"Wike\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-committee-on-emergence-of-elumelu-as-minority-leader-most-corrupt-wike-alleges#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-committee-on-emergence-of-elumelu-as-minority-leader-most-corrupt-wike-alleges\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-committee-on-emergence-of-elumelu-as-minority-leader-most-corrupt-wike-alleges\",\"name\":\"PDP Committee on Emergence of Elumelu as Minority Leader Most Corrupt, Wike Alleges - 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