PDP Risks Exclusion From 2027 Polls, Wike Warns

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has expressed fears that the Peoples Democratic party, PDP, may not recover well enough to participate in the 2027 general elections.

This is as the immediate past Governor of Rivers State admonished the party leaders to relegate their personal interests to the background and pick whatever remains of the PDP before it is too late.

At his monthly media parley on Monday December 29 2025, Wike harped on the urgent need to resolve all observed differences within the party or face the risk of being shut out of the contest for political offices in 2027.

He blamed the present leadership and internal crises bedeviling the PDP on lack of focus on the part of its leadership .

“We have a leadership that is not focused. We have a leadership that does not know what to do,

or take any suggestions.

“If the leadership had been committed and sincere to the point of accepting that mistakes had been made in the past, and seek ways out, the PDP would not have been in this present comatose state.

“It is not just to take over the Government, you have to position yourself. If the leadership continues the way it is going, I am afraid the PDP will not be participating in the 2027 elections.

“But the vital question remains – are we going to sit by and watch the PDP die?  Can’t we start to build up, and start to make the right decisions ahead of 2027? Well, it all depends on the leadership to decide. For now ,that is all I can say concerning the fate of the PDP” Wike noted .

The FCT Minister however singled out the Oyo state Governor Seyi Makinde to blame  for the escalation of the crisis , noting that his inordinate ambition is what is dragging the party under.

According to Wike, the Oyo state Governor’s ambition to seize total control of the Party is at the root of the current fractionalization rocking the party.

But Governor Makinde has insisted that the festering crisis derives from Wike’s avowed mission to ” hold down the party” for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s second term ambition.