{"id":179578,"date":"2025-09-19T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-crisis-damagum-now-against-me-after-helping-him-wike"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:07:10","slug":"pdp-crisis-damagum-now-against-me-after-helping-him-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-damagum-now-against-me-after-helping-him-wike","title":{"rendered":"PDP crisis: Damagum now against me after helping him \u2013 Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Minister of the Federal Capital, Nyesom Wike, has suggested that the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Umar Damagun, betrayed him.<\/p>\n<p>Wike claimed that he has turned out to become Damagum\u2019s enemy, adding that the PDP Chairman won\u2019t hesitate to kill him if he had the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he was the reason Damagun is still in that position as the PDP Chairman, adding that he did everything within his powers to put him there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did everything, I had his lawyers, and that\u2019s what sustained Damagum to be there,\u201d Wike said on Thursday while fielding questions on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut who is Damagum\u2019s enemy now? It is me. If there is one person Damagum wants to be killed, it is me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, had called on the Damagun-led National Working Committee, NWC, to expel Wike, former Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, former Abia State governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, and others from the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the NWC to wield the big stick and sanction members who openly undermine the party to the advantage of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/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. Minister of the Federal Capital, Nyesom Wike, has suggested that the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Umar Damagun, betrayed him. Wike claimed that he has turned out to become Damagum\u2019s enemy, adding that the PDP Chairman won\u2019t hesitate to kill him if he had the opportunity. He said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":179576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[12068,254,4806,454],"class_list":["post-179578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-damagum","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: Damagum now against me after helping him \u2013 Wike - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Minister of the Federal Capital, Nyesom Wike, has suggested that the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, ...\" \/>\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-damagum-now-against-me-after-helping-him-wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP crisis: Damagum now against me after helping him \u2013 Wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Minister of the Federal Capital, Nyesom Wike, has suggested that the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-damagum-now-against-me-after-helping-him-wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-19T07:05:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-19T08:07:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758256810.05263.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\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-crisis-damagum-now-against-me-after-helping-him-wike#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-damagum-now-against-me-after-helping-him-wike\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PDP crisis: Damagum now against me after helping him \u2013 Wike\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-19T07:05:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-19T08:07:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-damagum-now-against-me-after-helping-him-wike\"},\"wordCount\":220,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-damagum-now-against-me-after-helping-him-wike#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758256810.05263.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Damagum\",\"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-damagum-now-against-me-after-helping-him-wike#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-damagum-now-against-me-after-helping-him-wike\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-damagum-now-against-me-after-helping-him-wike\",\"name\":\"PDP crisis: Damagum now against me after helping him \u2013 Wike - 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