{"id":164200,"date":"2025-05-25T16:14:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T15:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-crisis-ill-fight-until-justice-is-attained-wike"},"modified":"2025-05-25T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T16:24:08","slug":"pdp-crisis-ill-fight-until-justice-is-attained-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-ill-fight-until-justice-is-attained-wike","title":{"rendered":"PDP Crisis: I\u2019ll fight until justice is attained -Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, says he was pulling out of all previous agreements reached to resolve the lingering crisis plaguing the Peoples Democratic Party PDP.<\/p>\n<p>This is as he vowed to fight on until justice is attained.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement on Sunday titled; \u201cPDP Crisis: My Position,\u201d which he personally signed.<\/p>\n<p>Wike said he had pointed out to the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, that he was the architect of the party\u2019s present problems.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said he told Makinde that non-adherence to agreements reached was the bane of the party, and that he was the chief culprit of this anomaly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince after the 2023 general election, PDP has been wantonly swinging from one part of a slippery precipice to another, owing fundamentally to dishonesty and lack of trust amongst its key stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo stem this ugly trend, efforts have been made to arrest this pernicious virus of dishonesty and treachery and enthrone fidelity to agreements with a view to stabilizing the party and moving it forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo this end, a meeting of the G5 was held in Lagos. In that meeting, I made it clear to the Governor of Oyo State, H.E. Seyi Makinde, that he was the architect of our problems, pointing out to him that non-adherence to agreements reached was the bane of the party, and that he was the chief culprit of this anomaly. At the end of the meeting, we resolved to bury the hatchet and make progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a follow-up to the aforementioned meeting, there was an expanded meeting in Abuja involving H.E. Seyi Makinde, H.E. Umaru Fintri, H.E. Bala Mohammed, H.E. Bukola Saraki, and in Saraki\u2019s guest house. In that meeting, I made it clear that I had no personal problems with H.E. Bala Mohammed, except that he hides under the facade of Chairman of PDP Governors Forum to serially renege on agreements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTensions rose mightily in the meeting and it took all concerned to calm frayed nerves. At the end of the meeting, we came to some resolutions, including: That Senator Samuel Anyanwu remains the National Secretary of the PDP in tandem with the Supreme Court judgement, all legal matters relating to Rivers State must be withdrawn by the National Legal Adviser, the suit on the state of emergency be withdrawn forthwith, and nobody should deviate from the agreements so reached.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the light of the foregoing, they pleaded with me to attend the stakeholders\u2019 meeting at the Bauchi Government Lodge, regardless of my many engagements. I attended the meeting and clearly reiterated my earlier concerns, and to this end and in order to resolve all other lingering and pending issues, a committee was formed, headed by H.E. Bukola Saraki.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is disheartening to note that even before the Bukola Saraki Reconciliation Committee began its work, the gentleman\u2019s agreement we reached at Saraki\u2019s Guest House was already being crudely violated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo my chagrin, Seyi Makinde had connived with Peter Mba of Enugu State to orchestrate the summoning of the meeting of so-called South-East leaders to recommend that if Ude Okoye was not adopted as Secretary, they would pull out of the PDP. I have since granted an interview to the effect that, that resolution of the South-East leaders cannot hold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, Seyi Makinde organised some people in the National Secretariat to insist that the Deputy National Secretary should act as National Secretary, in violation of the agreement earlier reached. To attempt to give credence to this farce, a letter was written by the Deputy National Secretary, calling for a meeting of the NEC of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, the letter confirming the candidacy of the governorship candidate of the party in the forthcoming governorship elections in Anambra State, duly signed by the National Secretary, Senator Anyanwu and the acting National Chairman, was portrayed as rejected by the party through a rebuttal letter signed by the National Publicity Secretary, acting on the orders of Seyi Makinde and Peter Mba.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll these actions are in complete violation of the agreements reached and would not do the party any good whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the 24th of May 2025, in Jos, for instance, a well publicised and properly attended zonal elective congress of the PDP was aborted because the letter inviting INEC to the congress was signed by the Deputy National Secretary of the party. INEC refused to attend because the proper signatory recognized by law, that is Senator Samuel Anyanwu, was not a signatory to the invitation notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is undeniably distasteful, provocative and annoying, to say the least. 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost 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 have decided to fight on until justice is attained,\u201d the statement read.<\/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. The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, says he was pulling out of all previous agreements reached to resolve the lingering crisis plaguing the Peoples Democratic Party PDP. This is as he vowed to fight on until justice is attained. This was contained in a statement on Sunday titled; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":164199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[254,4806,454],"class_list":["post-164200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp-crisis","tag-wike"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PDP Crisis: I\u2019ll fight until justice is attained -Wike - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, says he was pulling out of all previous agreements reac ...\" \/>\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\/parties\/pdp-crisis-ill-fight-until-justice-is-attained-wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP Crisis: I\u2019ll fight until justice is attained -Wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, says he was pulling out of all previous agreements reac ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-ill-fight-until-justice-is-attained-wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-25T15:14:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-25T16:24:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748177685.703832.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-ill-fight-until-justice-is-attained-wike#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-ill-fight-until-justice-is-attained-wike\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PDP Crisis: I\u2019ll fight until justice is attained -Wike\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-25T15:14:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-25T16:24:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-ill-fight-until-justice-is-attained-wike\"},\"wordCount\":962,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-ill-fight-until-justice-is-attained-wike#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748177685.703832.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"PDP crisis\",\"Wike\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-ill-fight-until-justice-is-attained-wike#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-ill-fight-until-justice-is-attained-wike\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-ill-fight-until-justice-is-attained-wike\",\"name\":\"PDP Crisis: I\u2019ll fight until justice is attained -Wike - 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