Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister and former Rivers State Governor Nyeson Wike has announced his decision “to pull out of all agreements hitherto reached” to resolve the crisis rocking his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The umbrella party was thrown into crisis in the build-up to the 2023 general election, a crisis that has snowballed into a gale of defections into the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a coalition movement by the party’s high-profile members, including governors and members of the National Assembly.
Now, the FCT Minister, in a press statement titled “PDP crisis: My position,” said dishonesty and a lack of trust among the party’s key stakeholders are reasons it “has been wantonly swinging from one part of a slippery precipice to another.”
It is not clear if Mr. Wike will be leaving the PDP, a party he said he worked tirelessly for its survival with all his strength. “I have decided to fight on until justice is attained,” he disclosed.
The FCT Minister, who outlined a series of failed agreements in the party, accused Oyo State Governor Mr. Seyi Makinde of being the architect of the problem. He warned that violating the agreements reached “would not do the party (PDP) any good whatsoever.”
