{"id":163900,"date":"2025-05-23T23:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/im-leaving-pdp-i-dont-have-wikes-kind-of-strength-akwa-ibom-gov-eno"},"modified":"2025-05-24T00:45:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T23:45:56","slug":"im-leaving-pdp-i-dont-have-wikes-kind-of-strength-akwa-ibom-gov-eno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/im-leaving-pdp-i-dont-have-wikes-kind-of-strength-akwa-ibom-gov-eno","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m leaving PDP, I don\u2019t have Wike\u2019s kind of strength \u2013 Akwa Ibom Gov, Eno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State, has announced he would be leaving the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Eno hinted that he would dump the PDP to a party where he can say the good things President Bola Tinubu is doing without being accused of engaging in anti-party activities.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a congregation in a viral video, the governor said he lacks the strength of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike who can confront anybody over wrongs within the party, hence the decision to leave the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Eno has always commended President Tinubu despite belonging to the opposition party.<\/p>\n<p>However, the governor blamed the leadership crisis within the PDP on his decision to defect because he cannot afford to lose at the courts after winning his reelection.<\/p>\n<p>According to Eno: \u201cIt\u2019s no more news that I\u2019m leaving the party. If you don\u2019t know that by now then I don\u2019t know what else you know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a PDP person, I love the PDP and want to stay in the PDP but clearly I don\u2019t have a road map that I would be guaranteed a smooth sail in the elections, not because we won\u2019t win \u2013 in this state today, with the work that we have done \u2013 even if we contest on a zero party, we will win this election because we have worked very hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we know that the national level our party is not coming together, every day we have issues, if you take your form and serve it to INEC and then you ran all the elections and won and then you lose because the wrong person signed your forms \u2013 you lose everything \u2013 I\u2019m not going to be stupid to stay doing that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love my party and at this stage, we are running like there is no party. The only agenda we run in our state is the arise agenda. No party in this country has clear ideological differences, i challenge anybody to a debate to show me the ideological differences of parties in this country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the Americans that have the Democrats that have their ideologies. I want someone in Nigeria to tell me why this is where you are. The agenda we are pursuing is the arise agenda and again I support this president. I know very well that this president did not create this situation that we are in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how to mince words, I can\u2019t be in the PDP today and supporting a president of another party, it will be clearly in violation of party guidelines, i don\u2019t know how to clip-flop. So if I\u2019m supporting the president let me go to where i can state the things he has done, I don\u2019t want to practice anti-party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have the kind of strength Wike has who will confront anybody, i\u2019m a very simple man by nature, I just say it the way I\u2019m convinced to say but that does not mean that I have nothing against our party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State, has announced he would be leaving the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Eno hinted that he would dump the PDP to a party where he can say the good things President Bola Tinubu is doing without being accused of engaging in anti-party activities. 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