“It’s Big Risk To Pursue One’s Political Ambition On PDP Platform” –  Wike

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has described the beleaguered Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in its present form, as a high risk platform for political contestants.

This is as he declared the long drawn political face-off between  his camp and that of Governor Siminalayi Fubara as a thing of the past.

Speaking at his monthly media chat on Monday February 2, 2026, the immediate past Governor of Rivers state and one of the prominent progenitors of the festering leadership and internal crises bedeviling the PDP, explained that the precarious and risky nature of the once political behemouth were  at the heart of the reason many of his loyalists rode on the back of the APC during the just concluded FCT Council Polls.

According to him, the unending crises within the PDP has rendered it a very big risk for potential aspirants to various political positions.

However, he expressed deep shock and concern that the leadership of the PDP has refused to draw any lesson from the unpalatable events that  served to reduce the party  to a weakling in the nation’s political and governance space.

“I have said it several times that, as it is today, my party, the PDP appears not to have learnt its lessons. And that being the case, I am going to support Mr President for a second term in office.

“I did not mince words when I said as a Minister, that my party never consulted me on the candidates they were going to field for the FCT Council elections.

“So, only candidates who informed me that they were going to run for the election, and who were also candidates that are supporting the President that I decided to support.

“It was unfortunate they might not be of the same party. But the fact remains that I never said I was going to support based on  political party affiliation

“The PDP, as of today, is a  high risk party for political contests. It does not make sense to go into a system that you don’t have a definite idea of who is going to submit your forms to the Independent National Electoral Commission. That is a very big political risk” the FCT Minister stated.

Wike also expressed happiness that peace has finally returned to his home state of Rivers after nearly three years of disagreements and clashes between the Governor’s camp and his loyalists.

He attributed the it to what he described as the ” give and take dispositions of the major actors in the crisis.

“Leadership is all about give and take. You have to be able to swallow certain things. From what I have seen, there is no cause for alarm, except there is something that you have seen in your investigations as journalists that I am yet to see.

“Otherwise, for now, we have done everything we should do in the interest of Rivers state”, he added.