A chieftain of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Pedro Obaseki, has accused the Federal Capital Territory
Minister, Nyesom Wike, of plotting to weaken the structures of the party to
make it easier for him to run on its platform for the 2027 presidency.
Obaseki who worked as Director of
Planning and Strategy for the PDP 2023 Presidential Campaign Council also
described Wike as a ‘nobody’ who rode on the structures of the party and the
goodwill of some of its chieftains to power only to betray them when he got to
the top.
He stated this on Monday in an
interactive session with a handful of journalists in Abuja against the backdrop
of a call by the FCT minister to suspend Atiku from the PDP.
Speaking as a guest on the Channels Television programme, Politics Today on Thursday, Wike was quoted as saying, “Look at the areas that the PDP did not win because of high-handedness, because of greed, because of impunity.
“If the PDP had done what they
were supposed to do, then you could have talked about that. There should be
equity, there should be justice, there should be fairness and that is why I am
calling on the National Working Committee to suspend the presidential candidate
(Atiku Abubakar) and people like Aminu Tambuwal so that they can rebuild the
party.”
Reacting to Wike’s television
outing, however, Obaseki said, “It is not hidden that the only thing Wike is
interested in is becoming the President of our country, and anything that seems
to stand wittingly or otherwise in his achieving that quest will be flushed
away and that is what he has been doing.
“What we are seeing now is that
he is fighting to decimate the PDP, so that he can also decimate the All
Progressives Congress to create a vehicle for himself to run in 2027, but we
are not stupid.
“It is important that we caution
Wike. There is a limit to the continued brigandage of a man who should be
grateful to God. Chinua Achebe in his book, Things Fall Apart, warned us that
‘Those whose palm kernels were cracked for them by benevolent spirits should
not forget to be humble.’ But someone like Wike… has continued to overstretch
his luck.
“Who is Wike? He is a nobody. He
rode on the back of the electorate of Rivers State to national prominence and
betrayed everybody along the way. From being a Local Government chairman, a
Minister of State, became Governor of Rivers State and now minister of the
FCT.”
He noted that the former Rivers
State governor had been in the business of championing a personal cause for
long noting that he fought for the removal of his friend and political ally,
Uche Secondus, as the PDP chairman because he considered him an obstacle to his
presidential aspiration in 2023.
Obaseki continued, “Wike plotted
a graph from the time he supported Prince Uche Secondus to arrest the
structures of the PDP. He then forced the removal of Secondus because he knew
that as chairman of the party, his own local government and senatorial
district, it’s goodbye to his running for the presidency.
“But he ran for that same
presidency and lost. He swore to support whoever won and reneged on every point
along the way.
“Time has come for the PDP and
those who want to strengthen democracy in Nigeria to see Wike for what he
really is. He is brave enough to come to the public space to say that he is the
sole financier of the PDP, a party founded in 1998.
“This is a party where he became
governor in a state where (Peter) Odili was already a governor for eight years
on the platform of the party; where Rotimi Amaechi had been governor for seven
years before defecting to the APC.”
While noting that it is Wike who
ought to be suspended from the PDP, Obaseki narrated what he called a number of
misdeeds by the former Rivers State governor, which prompted other leaders of
the PDP to defect to other parties.
“Wike should tell us why Atiku
should be suspended from the party. The person who deserves to be suspended
from the party is the man who is calling for the expulsion of others from the
party. Wike is the one who created a cult within the party and called it the
G-5.
Against the will, constitution
and structures of the party, he campaigned against the party. If anybody had
done anything anti-party, it is Wike.
He has fought every known person
within the party. If you remember, Bello Matawalle, former Governor of Zamfara
State, cited him as the reason for leaving the party. David Umahi cited him as
the reason for leaving the party.
Prof Ben Ayade cited him as the
reason for leaving the party. He has become the proverbial tortoise featuring
in every bad story.”
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