{"id":177821,"date":"2025-09-06T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-wikes-plan-is-to-make-pdp-unstable"},"modified":"2025-09-06T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:58:00","slug":"2027-wikes-plan-is-to-make-pdp-unstable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-wikes-plan-is-to-make-pdp-unstable","title":{"rendered":"2027: Wike\u2019s plan is to make PDP unstable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Political strategist and Group CEO of Global Investment and Trade Company, Baba Yusuf, has accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, of working to destabilise the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf spoke on Arise Television\u2019s Prime Time programme on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged that Wike\u2019s strategy is to prevent the PDP from producing strong presidential candidates such as former President Goodluck Jonathan or former Labour Party candidate Peter Obi.<\/p>\n<p>According to Yusuf, the PDP had allowed Wike to get to this point.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cYou know, in my opening remarks, and I\u2019ve said it consistently, even in the studio and my writings, it\u2019s what I call the linchpin strategy of Minister Nyesom Wike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not mystifying Minister Nyesom Wike but speaking the obvious. The end game for Minister Nyesom Wike is to ensure that the PDP is not stable enough to bring a credible candidate, whether it is His Excellency, Peter Obi or His Excellency, former president Goodluck Jonathan, and to ensure that doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the way, you will see this spoiler game being played by Minister Nyesom Wike. And for the PDP, fortunately or unfortunately, I would rather say unfortunately, you know, like Hausa will say \u2018they have slept on their hands and they have allowed the cob to become a lion.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were supposed to ensure four, five years ago, they did not allow the structure to be held the way Nyesom Wike has done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo going forward, if you ask me, the two candidates are good candidates, and the assignment of Mr. Nyesom Wike is to ensure that none of them emerges as a PDP candidate, because indeed, either of them will be a very formidable candidate for the APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that is the political culdesac that the PDP elders allowed themselves to be boxed into. Further down the line, we\u2019ll talk about how you allow politics, I mean funding of political parties to be in the hand of an individual, to the extent that after a while you will not be able to have a voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Political strategist and Group CEO of Global Investment and Trade Company, Baba Yusuf, has accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, of working to destabilise the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of the 2027 elections. Yusuf spoke on Arise Television\u2019s Prime Time programme on Friday. 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