{"id":164219,"date":"2025-05-26T12:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-disclaims-wikes-reported-agreements"},"modified":"2025-05-26T13:34:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T12:34:55","slug":"pdp-disclaims-wikes-reported-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-disclaims-wikes-reported-agreements","title":{"rendered":"PDP disclaims Wike\u2019s reported agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says it is not bound by any agreements with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, stating that such arrangements are personal and do not reflect the party\u2019s official stance.<\/p>\n<p>The party made the clarification after a deepening internal crisis that continues to threaten its unity and cohesion.<\/p>\n<p>The National Financial Secretary of the party, Daniel Woyengikuro, said that the PDP had no involvement in any deals made by Wike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat agreements are we talking about? Wike had agreements with his friends, not with the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose names he mentioned \u2014 are they the party? The party was not involved in any agreements he made. We have no knowledge of such agreements,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Woyengikuro stressed the need for the party\u2019s National Executive Committee, NEC, which is its highest decision-making organ apart from the convention \u2014 to convene and address the growing disputes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NEC will address any issues. This isn\u2019t a physical fight or a man-to-man confrontation. All this unnecessary drama is uncalled for,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He also dismissed Wike\u2019s public accusations, advising Nigerians to seek official party positions from the appropriate authorities.<\/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 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says it is not bound by any agreements with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, stating that such arrangements are personal and do not reflect the party\u2019s official stance. The party made the clarification after a deepening internal crisis that continues to threaten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":164218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[254,65,454],"class_list":["post-164219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","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 disclaims Wike\u2019s reported agreements - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says it is not bound by any agreements with the Minister of the Federal Capital Terri ...\" \/>\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-disclaims-wikes-reported-agreements\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP disclaims Wike\u2019s reported agreements\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says it is not bound by any agreements with the Minister of the Federal Capital Terri ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-disclaims-wikes-reported-agreements\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-26T11:11:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-26T12:34:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748250336.772324.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=\"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\/parties\/pdp-disclaims-wikes-reported-agreements#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-disclaims-wikes-reported-agreements\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PDP disclaims Wike\u2019s reported agreements\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-26T11:11:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-26T12:34:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-disclaims-wikes-reported-agreements\"},\"wordCount\":212,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-disclaims-wikes-reported-agreements#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748250336.772324.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Wike\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-disclaims-wikes-reported-agreements#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-disclaims-wikes-reported-agreements\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-disclaims-wikes-reported-agreements\",\"name\":\"PDP disclaims Wike\u2019s reported agreements - 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