“Tell Me, Which PDP Governor  Did Not Lobby For Position In Tinubu’s Government” –  Wike

By Gideon Njoku

“Who in PDP Will Discipline Me?”

In an interview with Channels Television Friday night, Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT,  threw a challenge at his  colleagues in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Speaking with the TV Station’s Seun Okinbaloye, Wike revealed, apparently, referring that there is no Peoples Democratic Party’s Governor that did not lobby for a position in President Bola Tinubu Government.

Wike, the immediate past Governor of Rivers  State, worked strongly against his Party’s  Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in preference to the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, now President Bola Tinubu. He said they all lobbied for ministerial positions for one person or the other.

Wike had aspired to be the PDP Candidate, but he was beaten to a second position by Atiku, who went on to reject Wike as his running mate, in preference to the then Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowo.

Angered by Atiku’s snub, Wike, along with four of his Governor-colleagues, worked publicly and seriously against their Party’s Candidate, Atiku.

For his contributions to then Candidate Tinubu’s victory, Wike was rewarded with the high profile position of the FCT Minister.

Asked if it was not appropriate to call him a mole in PDP, he said he was clear from the beginning that he would work for  Tinubu.  In his defence, he said he wrote to the PDP – from Ward to LGA, State and National Levels – that President Tinubu had offered him a Ministerial appointment. One by one, he said, all of them endorsed the offer.

He then thundered: “Who in the PDP did not try to nominate names for President Tinubu’s appointments. Yes, they did. Let them come forward and say they did not do it.”

Wike does not, therefore, see his position in an APC Government as anti-party and went on to reveal that almost all of them wanted a piece of the cake – to be offered a position in President Tinubu’s  Administration.

Reminded that PDP had set-up a Disciplinary Committee which already invited him, Wike chuckled, and asked: “Discipline who? Who will discipline who now?”

Asker if he was not an outsider in the PDP, Wike quipped: “No Governor in the PDP, no one born of a woman can claim that I am an outsider in the Party.”