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This is not an apology, can't you read?

joelbooks:
Uzor Njoku Apologies to Yoruba and Oba of Lagos

https://x.com/uzoart/status/1990853986765734308

Wike's G5 member Orthom was chairman of zoning committee who threw the ticket open in order not to zone it to South East.

Wike had it coming alright

Biodun556:
1. Zoning of presidency to South: Wike was among the contestants in the PDP presidential primary election. Other PDP presidential candidates in the primary election who are northerners withdraw at the last minute and declared support for Atiku, claiming that there is nothing like zoning in PDP after Buhari spent 8 years. Wike felt betrayed and insisted that it was time for the south to produce president.


2.Vice president ticket: after Wike was robbed of the PDP presidential ticket, he was promised VP ticket as compensation. Surprisingly, Okowa, the former governor of Delta State was declared as Atiku vice presidential candidate.

3. PDP National Chairman seat: since Wike could not get presidential and VP ticket, he believed that his candidate should be PDP National Chairman and must be from the South. Again, northern politicians denied him, and gave the party national chairman to a Northerner.

How can northerners become presidential candidate and then produce the national chairman again?

Then battle line was drawn

Interestingly, Wike has never changed political party. He has been a PDP member all his life

You're too naive. This is like a man that has one million in his account celebrating while owing 20 million

joelbooks:
Breaking: Nigeria’s foreign reserves hit seven-year high, reach $46.7 billion – CBN



https://nairametrics.com/2025/11/18/nigerias-foreign-reserves-hit-seven-year-high-reach-46-7-billion-cbn/

Is this all you can say?

Burob:
Same Makinde that joined the Pdp in 2014 is fighting men that have been there since 1998?

When the cat is away, the mouse will come out to play.

Its not called politics. Makinde thought that they were fighting Atiku and Tambuwal but when they left for ADC, Wike continued.

Normally, you would have expected Wike to calm down since his enemies are gone but it became clear to Makinde that Wike has a different agenda other than Atiku which is to make sure PDP is incapable of challenging Tinubu

yarimo:
it's called politics no permanent friend but permanent interest . Nothing wrong in politics

Obi will fix insecurity. He did it in Anambra

ShoeMarket:
The sad part is if you put Atiku there today, the situation will even worsen. That has been the pattern, a sad trajectory indeed.

I don't even know what is Nigeria solution, aswear.

Trump, Nigerians are calling on you to remove the satanic party APC and their Islamic terrorism wing Bokoharam and ISWAP

Anyanwu signed the notice to INEC. When you see mischief makers, won't you know?

IgOga:
This PDP has become PDAPC. A show of shame

Unfortunately for Makinde and co only recognised party secretary can inform INEC of a convention. Anyawu has said the letter submitted to INEC with his signature is a forged signature. INEC cannot just change party exco without a valid convention. If Anyawu says the letter is fake and INEC did not attend or recognise the convention then the Ibadan show is a facade.

Wike is Abuja's landlord and Wadata House is in Abuja so Wike technically control the secretariat

Anyanwu faction is APC faction. If the military takes over, Tinubu will be held accountable

NgeneUkwenu:
The police should make sure those Ibadan renegades are not allowed anywhere near the secretariat.

When GEJ was there, there were frequent dead bodies of terrorists to the extent the Northern elites started complaining.

Tinubu’s govt is pardoning terrorists

yarimo:
But Jonathan appoint a former LT general of the army as minister of defence yet nothing has been done to stop the killings and kidnapping

Tinubu is a terrible president.

He doesn't know his left from his right

Nigeria has been facing insecurity for about 15yrs yet Tinubu appointed a mediocre to be minister of defense?

Tinubu is not interested in governance but politics[quote author=ThroneNGamez post=137511097]https://x.com/oluwaseun_ajede/status/1990510117591056472?t=sG7y1brBI5V8nwQ7tdT2iQ&s=08[/quote]

Says the one that compromises justices through proxies the most.

The undisputed heavyweight champion of incompetence and corruption Tilumbu

I thought they said Yorubas respect elders. As you pose, na so you go show!

Only Peter Obi has the capacity to defeat Tinubu

Validated:
ADC and PDP will jointly field GEJ to flush out this dementia of a presidency. Can't wait for 2027 to breathe FRESH AIR AGAIN!

Arguing with you is a waste of time

christistruth01:
Indigenes can claim Land without Buying in their Hometown
They only need to turn up in the Family Compound

What do you think our Ancestors fought all those Centuries from Ife to Togo and Ghana For?

Their lives and their Ancestral Homelands !!,

They didn’t have the Luxury of sitting on the same spot ,in the Jungle breaking and Chewing Kola nuts for 500 years
They would have gone extinct!


Awolowo was right, our History and Cultures are poles apart

I knew they would be expelled and they knew too and thats why they went to court to block the convention

fergie001:
They have lost the plot.
They went to Omotosho to say PDP didn't give 21 days notice of meeting. Now they announced theirs 24 hours before.

Will they submit it to INEC? I also understand they are going to the Federal High Court today to get an ex-parte to compel INEC to affirm recognition of their meeting.

They intend to expel Makinde, Bala Mohammed, Bode George, Wabara and those they feel were the arrowheads at Ibadan. It's all too late, my dearies.

They didn't see the expulsion coming, I didn't either

Indigenes do not claim land even in their own state, they buy land. Same goes for every other Nigerian

christistruth01:
Ok
If you get Liver just claim Kano

Or Boko Haram Sambisa Forest

Since you think all Nigerians own them and their indigenes have no rights

Yes! Zik, Awolowo and Amadu Bello ruined Nigeria from inception

pocohantas:
Nawa! You and the man get beef?

Stop this posthumous nonsense. How many people live upto 121 yrs?
Once you're dead, that's the end of everything!

Obi will be on the ballot and will defeat Tinubu again and be sworn in this time

Richtaiwo:
Tinubu afraid of contesting against pitobi?

Nawa for una o.

They cannot do that against Nigerian constitution.

Why haven't they done it? Tinubu's grip in Lagos will not last more than 12trs from now

Ttalk:
Don't cry when they carry out demolition of building without state approval

Don't cry when the ammend the c of o to expires at 20 years.

Don't cry when they make their indigenous dialect mandatory in state schools

PDP has already zoned their ticket to the South. The new chairman is from the North.

Why is Tinubu afraid of contesting against Obi?

Richtaiwo:
Peter obi would not dare. His mind is conditioned to expect everything delivered to him on a platter, free of resistance. Atiku, on the other hand, is a formidable adversary, one who would defeat him resoundingly in the primaries. Rather than face such opposition, he would sooner seek out a party with no flag bearer and quietly defect.

PDP has already zoned their presidential ticket to the south

Naming of street, making local laws are superficial things. There's nothing tangible an indigene can do that other Nigerians can't do

aswani:
No it doesn't, until Nigeria divides, Nigerians can move to and live in every inch of Nigeria.

The indigines of the places they are moving to own those places and can make local legislation that suits them like street renaming etc.

Worry about your qualification first

Freshandfitpod:
Canada is not going anywhere, please rest...

My team Canada is hosting the world cup so qualified by virtue of this.
From coast to coast, we rock!

Stop promoting tribalism, its worse than racism

Munamu:
I condemned the mode of approach of Wike towards the officer. But let us be sincere with ourselves, if the narrative were different, such respond would not have emanated from the young officer.
it still reflect the frustration of the north that a southerner is appointed the FCT helmsman. Look at the way they supported the officer. If it were the other way round, the southern soldier would have been in the guardroom and protest erupted from Arewa.
People from Southern Nigeria are objective and not myopic in decision making. In all, I blame Tinibu for not finding a worthy person from the south to be made the FCT minister other than Wike.

Brown envelope newspapers

Fareke:
The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party escalated on Saturday following the expulsion of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and 10 other high-ranking leaders over alleged anti-party activities.

The decision was taken at the PDP’s 20th National Convention at the main bowl of the Lekan Salami Stadium, Adamasingba, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

Those also expelled include a former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose; the party’s National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu; the National Legal Adviser, Kamaldeen Ajibade; and Austin Nwachukwu.

Others are the factional chairman of the party, Mohammed Abdulrahman; Senator Mao Ohuabunwa; Austine Nwachukwu; Abraham Amah; George Turner; and Chief Dan Orbih.

A motion for the expulsion was moved by the former National Vice Chairman of the party (South), Chief Olabode George, and seconded by the Bauchi PDP Chairman, Samaila Burga, before its eventual adoption by the party’s delegates.

At the convention, the delegates also unanimously confirmed Umaru Damagum as the substantive National Chairman of the party.

The convention sparked divisions among the governors loyal to Damagum, as two of them—Governor Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State, who chaired the National Organising Committee of the convention, and the Governor of Plateau State, Caleb Mutfwang—dissociated themselves from Wike’s expulsion.

The battle before convention

The PDP has been engulfed in crises in recent months, with factions loyal to Wike and Damagum clashing over control of the party’s structure.

This culminated in a bitter confrontation before the convention.

Ahead of the convention, former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking justice after being denied the opportunity to purchase the PDP national chairmanship nomination form.

On Friday, Justice Peter Lifu ordered the party to suspend the convention.

He also restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission from supervising, monitoring, or recognising any convention conducted by the PDP that did not include Lamido as a contestant.

Justice Lifu held that evidence before the court showed that Lamido had been denied the opportunity to obtain a nomination form to contest for the position of National Chairman.

Recall that on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, Justice Lifu delivered a similar ruling restraining the PDP from holding the convention, which was intended to elect new national officers to lead the party.

Lamido, through his counsel, Jephthah Njikonye, SAN, had filed an ex parte motion seeking an interim injunction to halt the convention pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.

In his ruling, Justice Lifu held that the plaintiff’s application had merit and consequently restrained the PDP from convening the event until the substantive matter before the court was resolved.

He noted that there was no reason to depart from an earlier ruling by Justice James Omotosho of the same court on October 31, 2025, which similarly halted the convention.

However, in a conflicting order, the Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan on November 3 permitted the PDP to proceed with the convention.

Justice Ladiran Akintola, ruling on an ex parte application filed by an Oyo PDP member, Mr Folahan Adelabi, directed INEC to attend and monitor the convention for the election of new national officers.

The Damagum camp went ahead with the programme, claiming no knowledge of Justice Lifu’s Friday order.

Wike, others expelled over anti-party activities— PDP

Announcing the expulsion of Wike and other high-profile members via X on Saturday, the PDP said the decision was ratified by the majority of delegates at the convention.

The party explained that the move underscored its commitment to eradicating internal divisions and anti-party conduct that have hindered its progress.

Citing Articles 10(6) and 58(1)(b), (c), (f), (i), (j), (l), as well as 59(1)(g) of its 2017 Constitution (as amended), the PDP argued that the National Convention remains supreme in all matters relating to the party, including issues of discipline involving its officers and members.

Speaking with Sunday PUNCH after the announcement, the South-West PDP Chairman, Kamorudeen Ajisafe, said the expulsion was long overdue.

“Wike and others were suspended for anti-party activities,” Ajisafe said.

“They wanted to destroy the party, and we cannot allow that to happen.”

He, however, clarified that Lamido was not included in the expulsion despite his series of court moves to stop the convention.

“Lamido isn’t in Wike’s category. He is a respected PDP leader,” Ajisafe stated.

“He is just angry that he wasn’t allowed to purchase the nomination form to contest the PDP chairmanship, as he showed interest after the closure of the timeframe for such. We will resolve issues with him.”

The Senior Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, dismissed the convention as mere drama.

Olayinka, via X, argued that no one should take the organisers seriously.

“They went to Ibadan to start dirty December in November. When people decide to start their own dirty December in November, one can’t but ignore whatever comes out of their mouths,” he wrote.

“They gathered in Ibadan to do social party, enjoyed themselves and got intoxicated. They are free to say anything.”

Govs revolt against Wike’s expulsion

Governor Fintiri dissociated himself from Wike’s expulsion.

Fintiri, while delivering his speech at the convention ground, said the absence of INEC officials at the event also necessitated his withdrawal from the exercise.

“With the absence of INEC and the various litigations for and against this convention, it is not within my prerogative to continue with this exercise. I leave the convention delegates to decide,” Fintiri said.

The Adamawa governor further clarified his position in a statement shared on his verified X handle (@AhmaduUmaruFintiri).

The Adamawa governor further clarified his position in a statement shared on his verified X handle (@AhmaduUmaruFintiri).

He described Wike’s expulsion as an action against the interest of the party and warned that it could plunge the PDP into an unending crisis.

Fintiri urged party members to work towards unity and the reconciliation of aggrieved members.

https://punchng.com/govs-revolt-as-wikes-expulsion-breaks-pdp/