•Wike during the media chat in Abuja today
Conference of Professionals in the Peoples Democratic Party (CP-PDP) has said that the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike’s media chat today, has further confirmed his frustration over his failure to secure the support of credible Nigerians for President Tinubu’s unattainable re-election bid in 2027.
CP-PDP, in a statement by its Protem National Coordinator, Barr. Obinna Nwachukwu invites Nigerians to note the minister’s resort to hubristic invective, diversionary falsehoods, and baseless allegations against Governor Makinde and other credible leaders.
“This outburst stems from their refusal to support the Tinubu administration, which has brought untold hardship and escalated insecurity across the country over the last two years,” the PDP professionals said.
The CP-PDP added that “from Chief Wike’s confessional responses during the media chat —including his failed attempts to engineer a parallel leadership for the PDP — it is now clear that the travails facing the PDP are contrived to cripple the opposition.
“This is part of a sinister plot to enable President Tinubu to establish a one-party state ahead of the 2027 general elections; a plot the PDP has firmly resisted.”
The PDP Professionals further said that “through Wike’s media chat, Nigerians can now clearly identify the individuals and motivations behind the subversive court actions against the PDP, the violent attacks on the new National Working Committee duly elected at the Party’s National Convention, the sealing of the PDP National Secretariat, and the attempts to compromise certain INEC officials against the Party.”
The CP-PDP warned Wike that the PDP is too big and too deeply entrenched to be captured or derailed.
“His resort to personal attacks and bogus allegations against our leaders, such as Governor Makinde, will not yield the results he desires.
“In any case, the CP-PDP holds no sympathy for Minister Wike, who has become an expired, ‘homeless,’ and pathetically isolated politician lacking a genuine base or followership,” the group said.
Enumerating the travails bedevilling Wike, the CP-PDP said, “Having been expelled from the PDP, rejected by the All Progressives Congress (APC), and sidelined in the politics of Rivers State, Minister Wike is now clutching at straws. He is jittery, forlorn, and in mortal fear of imminent political oblivion — a desperation that has driven him to attack credible leaders in a futile attempt to retain his nuisance value.”
The PDP Professionals said that the party has moved on without Wike and his associates, adding, “Consequently, the CP-PDP will no longer dissipate energy on his antics.
“Instead, the Conference counsels Minister Wike to face his self-inflicted political woes in Rivers State and Abuja, and to steer clear of the PDP and its leadership.
“Furthermore, Minister Wike would do well to use such live media events to allow Nigerians to engage him directly. This would provide an opportunity for him to address the serious allegations of corruption, fund mismanagement, land grabbing, and racketeering under his watch.
“He should also come clean regarding the vindictive revocation and demolition of property, as well as the alleged fleecing of FCT residents, commuters, and businesses through heavy tariffs and multiple levies.”
