Wike To Bala: You Should Be Ashamed As PDP Crisis Deepens

Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Barr Nyesom Wike on Sunday said Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state “should be ashamed” that the party lost several governors to the All Progressives Congress (APC) during his tenure as chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum.

While adding that the rival faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), declaring that Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed, Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde and others were “on their way out of the PDP.”

Speaking at a factional meeting in Abuja, Wike accused the opposing bloc of attempting to sideline long-standing party members and undermine the party’s stability.

“We won’t let those we accepted into the PDP kill the party,” he said. “I joined the party in 1998. Bala Mohammed came after the doctrine of necessity in 2010. Makinde came from the SDP. They now want to push away those they met here. They have no choice again they are on their way out.”

Wike claimed that his own leadership as a PDP governor strengthened the party, unlike the period under Mohammed’s chairmanship.
“When I was governor, more people including governors came into the party,” he stated.