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A group known as PDP Frontiers for Change and Progress, has hit back at the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mr Nyesom Wike, arguing that contrary to Wike’s claims, he is rather the “real betrayer and architect of the crisis” rocking the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
This is as the group advised the former Rivers’ Governor to “honourably take his exit from PDP instead of staying behind to cause confusion”.
The PDP support group which was reacting to Wike’s allegation that Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, and his Enugu State counterpart, Peter Mbah, were betrayers and the architects of the party’s protracted crisis, accused Wike of “standing truth in the head and playing to the gallery”.
Recall that Wike had in a strong-worded statement on Sunday, announced his pullout from all gentleman agreement on how to resolve the party’s leadership tussles, vowing to fight to finish.
Wike had in the statement claimed that Makinde and Mbah made reconciliation of the party’s crisis impossible , accusing the duo of reneging in a purported agreement earlier reached by key stakeholders.
According to Wike, the stakeholders had earlier agreed that Senator Samuel Anyanwu be retained as the PDP’s National Secretary, and that all suits against the Rivers’ Emergency Rule be withdrawn, conditions he accused Makinde and Mbah of violating.
“To my chagrin, Seyi Makinde had connived with Peter Mba of Enugu State to orchestrate the summoning of the meeting of so-called South-East leaders to recommend that if Ude Okoye was not adopted as Secretary, they would pull out of the PDP”, Wike claimed in his Sunday statement.
” I have now firmly decided to pull out of all agreements hitherto reached; I have decided to fight on until justice is attained”, Wike added.
But the PDP support group, in a swift reaction, accused Wike of “being smart by half”, and “mounting smear campaigns to blackmail Mbah and Makinde.”
National Coordinator of the group, Emeka Yellow Ikpegbu, expressed bewilderment that Wike who he alleged, had “been the APC mole in PDP, could accuse genuine and committed stakeholders of what himself is guilty of”.
Ikpegbu said that contrary to claims by the former Rivers’ Governor, “Wike and his boot- leakers dragging the leadership of PDP in some of the states are the destabilising forces on a mission to sink the party”.
” Instead of masquerading as a peace maker while he is the one igniting the fire, Wike should better leave PDP”, Ikpegbu said.
“Wike should stop pretending. We know his spirit has since left PDP after sabotaging the party in 2023. Now is the time to completely pull out of the party, and not just pulling out of the so-called gentleman agreement. We want him to also pull out of the PDP He has given us enough discomfort.
” We know Wike and his antics. Can he swear that he is not on a mission to destroy PDP? What anti-party is worse than a so-called PDP stakeholder openly working for the ruling APC against his own party? Who is causing the crisis in Rivers State? Is it to his credit as a good party man that less than two years he left office as Governor of Rivers State, the PDP which made him collapsed in the state, and the state enmeshed in chaos
