The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, had in a media interaction threatened the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders with vaunt that no one can suspend or discipline him in the party.
The former Governor of Rivers State had boasted: “Who will discipline me? I should be the one calling for the discipline of these people who violated the party’s constitution, in the way that the party supported rotation.
“Who will suspend me? I want to dare anybody.”
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He maintained: “We are just waiting for the presidential panel to finish, you will know who actually are those who are working well for the party.
“How can anybody talk about expelling me? A state that brought a governor? A state that brought three senators? A state that produced 32 House of Assembly members? A state that produced 11 out of 13 House of Representatives.
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“The person that would suspend me is the one that couldn’t produce a governor, is the one that couldn’t produce three senators?
“I have not seen that person, with all due respect. Nobody will do it. So, the issue of they will do it does not arise.”
Wike reiterated that he notified the PDP leadership before he accepted the ministerial appointment offered him by President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The former Governor of Rivers State led four other PDP governors to protest the emergence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as PDP presidential candidate in the 2023 general election. They had demanded the resignation of Iyorchia Ayu as PDP national chairman and the appointment of a southern national chairman as condition to support the PDP in the 2023 presidential election.
Insisting that he remains a member of the PDP, Wike asserted: “I want to support Asiwaju to finish well.”