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The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has talked about the leadership crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), warning that the party risks further implosion if it continues to sideline key stakeholders and ignore due process.
He also dismissed insinuations that he was behind every internal storm within the PDP.
At a media chat in Abuja on Friday, the FCT minister accused the current PDP hierarchy of fostering division by making unilateral decisions without consulting key figures — a mistake he believes has repeatedly fractured the party’s foundation.
“I have told you before, the problem we have because we are governors, and I have said this, you go and take a decision, and then you sideline certain people — what do you expect to have? You have a faction. Is that not embarrassing?”
Wike also questioned the rationale behind the party’s planned National Convention, suggesting that due process had been abandoned.
“What is the National Convention? Why are you not following due process in the National Convention? I have said it, and I continue to say it.”
The former Rivers State governor recalled previous crises within the PDP, insisting that history was repeating itself because the party had failed to learn from its past.
He rejected claims that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was manipulating events within the PDP, claiming that the opposition’s problems were largely self-inflicted.
“They claim the APC has a hand in all of this. As a governor, who is pushing who? I had a major threat as a governor… There was no governor that was fought the way the government fought me at that time.”
He also pushed back against the growing narrative that Nigeria risks becoming a one-party state, saying the PDP must take responsibility for its disarray rather than blaming external forces.
