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PDP CRISIS: MY POSITION

1. Since after the 2023 General election, the PDP has been wantonly swinging from one part of a slippery precipice to another, owing fundamentally to dishonesty and lack of trust amongst its key stakeholders.

To stem this ugly trend, efforts have been made to arrest this pernicious virus of dishonesty and treachery and enthrone fidelity to agreements with a view to stabilizing the party and moving it forward.

2. To this end, a meeting of the G5 was held in Lagos. In that meeting, I made it clear to the Governor of Oyo State, HE. Seyi Makinde, that he was the architect of our problems, pointing out to him that non-adherence to agreements reached was the bane of the party, and that he was the chief culprit of this anomaly.

At the end of the meeting, we resolved to bury the hatchet and make progress.

3. As a follow-up to the aforementioned meeting, there was an expanded meeting in Abuja involving HE. Seyi Makinde, HE. Umaru Fintri, HE. Bala Mohammed, HE, Bukola Saraki, and I in Saraki’s guest house.

In that meeting, I made it clear that I had no personal problems with HE. Bala Mohammed, except that he hides under the facade of Chairman of PDP Governors Forum to serially renege on agreements. Tensions rose mightily in the meeting and it took all concerned to calm frayed nerves.

At the end of the meeting, we came to some resolutions, including:
a. That Senator Samuel Anyanwu remains the National Secretary of the PDP in tandem with the Supreme Court judgement.
b. All legal matters relating to Rivers State must be withdrawn by the National Legal Adviser.
c. The suit on the State of emergency be withdrawn forthwith.
d. Nobody should deviate from the agreements so reached.

In the light of the foregoing, they pleaded with me to attend the stakeholders’ meeting at the Bauchi Government Lodge, regardless of my many engagements.

I attended the meeting and clearly reiterated my earlier concerns, and to this end and in order to resolve all other lingering and pending issues, a committee was formed, headed by HE. Bukola Saraki.

4. It is disheartening to note that even before the Bukola Saraki Reconciliation Committee began its work, the gentleman’s agreement we reached at Saraki’s Guest House was already being crudely violated.

To my chagrin, Seyi Makinde had connived with Peter Mba of Enugu State to orchestrate the summoning of the meeting of so-called South-East leaders to recommend that if Ude Okoye was not adopted as Secretary, they would pull out of the PDP.

I have since granted an interview to the effect that, that resolution of the South-East leaders can not hold.

Again, Seyi Makinde organized some people in the National Secretariat to insist that the Deputy National Secretary should act as National Secretary, in violation of the agreement earlier reached.

To attempt to give credence to this farce, a letter was written by the Deputy National Secretary, calling for a meeting of the NEC of the party.

Furthermore, the letter confirming the candidacy of the Governorship candidate of the party in the forthcoming Governorship elections in Anambra State, duly signed by the National Secretary, Senator Anyanwu and the acting National Chairman, was portrayed as rejected by the party through a rebuttal letter signed by the National Publicity Secretary, acting on the orders of Seyi Makinde and Peter Mba.

All these actions are in complete violation of the agreements reached and would not do the party any good whatsoever. On the 24th of May 2025, in Jos, for instance, a well publicized and properly attended zonal elective congress of the PDP was aborted because the letter inviting INEC to the congress was signed by the Deputy National Secretary of the party.

INEC refused to attend because the proper signatory recognized by law, that is Senator Samuel Anyanwu was not a signatory to the invitation notice. This is undeniably distasteful, provocative and annoying, to say the least.

5. I have painstakingly put out all these facts so that PDP members and the general public would know the truth. I have been in this party since 1998 and have worked tirelessly for the survival of this party with all my strength and it is on record that none of these persons have done anything close to what I have done to sustain this party.

What is more painful is that I contributed substantially to most of these governors winning their elections, yet I have not made any personal demands on any of them and I would never do so.

Most importantly, I had thought that we could keep the trust amongst us, but since it is now obvious that they would continue to play games to the detriment of the party, as is the case in the current debacle in the North-Central zonal elections, I have now firmly decided to pull out of all agreements hitherto reached.

I have decided to fight on until justice is attained.

Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, CON
Minister, Federal Capital Territory
May 25, 2025

https://news360ng.com/wike-withdraws-from-pdp-reconciliation-efforts-accuses-makinde-party-leaders-of-betrayal/

Who asked him
We said it since that the G-5 founded on lies and deceit will later fall like a pack of cards
Waiting for Makinde's reply
Wike's house of cards as begun to fall off you know the reasoning behind this wailing
Fergie001

Ok

Does he think he can port to APC with this kind of attitude?

Lol this one look likes Ads...

When you sell your brother, even your buyers won't trust you.

That's all!

Wikes new quarrel is with his Yesterday best friend and G5 members Makinde

The sooner they suspend this man for blatant anti party activities the better for PDP

A member who is glaring trying to pull a political party down and the political party is still holding meetings with him and signing agreements

If PDP cannot discipline Wike, then they should never win any election in Nigeria again, they should just dissolve that party as it is a source of fraudulent politicians gaining power and decamping thereby betraying the electorate while the party that should discipline its elected members and reiterate its governance program looks the other way

Hehehehhehehehehe.. grin grin grin

I cannot wait to see Wike and Seyi fight. That yeye useless party that should have done the right thing in 2023.

Una fight just dey start ni. You never know anything.

Awon oloriburuku egbekegbe

1. Crisis Originated Before 2023:
Wike’s claim that the PDP crisis began after the 2023 elections is misleading. His fallout with the party following the 2022 presidential primaries and his role in undermining the PDP presidential candidate laid the groundwork for disunity well before the polls.

2. Personalization of Party Politics:
Wike has consistently personalized party affairs, often acting unilaterally and sidelining institutional processes. His blame of others—such as Governors Seyi Makinde and Peter Mbah—obscures his own role in destabilizing consensus-building within the PDP.

3. The G5's Role in Division:
The G5 governors, led by Wike, exacerbated divisions by publicly opposing the PDP’s presidential ticket and aligning with opposition interests. Their actions fractured party support and weakened the PDP’s electoral prospects in key states.

4. National Secretary Issue Is Legal, Not Political:
While Senator Samuel Anyanwu’s legal status as National Secretary is backed by the courts, his simultaneous gubernatorial ambitions raised legitimate concerns about focus and conflict of interest. Wike politicized these concerns rather than addressing them constructively.

5. North-Central Congress Failure:
Wike’s claim that the Jos congress was sabotaged by party officials ignores the confusion caused by parallel instructions and his own interference. INEC’s refusal to attend was due to procedural irregularities, not internal sabotage.

6. Ultimatums Undermine Unity:
Wike’s decision to withdraw from previously agreed peace resolutions reflects political immaturity. Resolving party crises requires compromise and dialogue, not threats or walkouts.

7. No One Is Bigger Than the Party:
Wike’s assertion that he has done more than any other member to sustain the PDP is dismissive of the collective efforts of millions of party faithful. The party’s legacy belongs to all, not to one individual’s contributions or influence.

8. Call for Institutional Rebuilding:
To recover, the PDP must move beyond personal power struggles. All stakeholders must recommit to internal democracy, credible reconciliation mechanisms, and the strengthening of party institutions over individual egos.

Conclusion:
The way forward for the PDP lies in inclusive leadership, respect for agreements, institutional reform, and collective vision, not in unilateral declarations or personality driven politics.

✍️ Comr Umar Farouk A Concerned PDP Member Based in Yola, Adamawa State

Nothing can take arrogance from Wike. It is in his DNA and you see that by the way he talks when he address the public.

yang:
Wikes new quarrel is with his Yesterday best friend and G5 members Makinde

The sooner they suspend this man for blatant anti party activities the better for PDP

A member who is glaring trying to pull a political party down and the political party is still holding meetings with him and signing agreements

U think PDP is tolerating Wike for nothing...??
Politics is a game of money, influence and numbers...PDP needs the Rivers money and Wike who has a lot of influence is still in control of rivers from the look of things

this one too want to be president of where and who?


God forbid it.

Agbegbaorogboye:
Who asked him

You will see something. Go and ask Atiku

Maxymilliano:
1.. .
✍️ Comr Umar Farouk A Concerned PDP Member Based in Yola, Adamawa State

Talk is cheap. Let's see who will fund PDP.

Nigeria should look beyond men of questionable characters and criminality.

U cannot build a an upright nation with criminals and people with no decorum

Why would one of the conditions be to withdraw the SOE Suit in Rivers State if you are certain the President and National Assembly did the right thing?

No wonder even the SC is yet to fix a definite date for hearing of the suit cos they know the declaration of SOE and suspension of the Governor will be declared null and void if brought before them for judicial interpretation...

Too full of himself

Forget
The wike that is an active member of the APC govt cannot claim he wants the pdp which is in opposition to succeed
Theformer state governor bukola Saraki who along with amaechi and co cannot claim to have the goodwill of making pdp to progress because he is in alliance with atiku
Atiku who worked against the pdp and is a former member of the APC

I mean it is a bed of fellows with one common thing...they worked for the downfall of the party.so how will it change

May I not be seeing the source of my problem and still be letting it lives in house . Woke holding PDP party by his balls . Make Atiku still rest na south turn he no gree. Obi greatest mistake is to deputize for Atiku . The south go rather prefer tinubu to continue

Wike; the ìjọgbọn man

Newsgeek24:
PDP CRISIS: MY POSITION

1. Since after the 2023 General election, the PDP has been wantonly swinging from one part of a slippery precipice to another, owing fundamentally to dishonesty and lack of trust amongst its key stakeholders.

To stem this ugly trend, efforts have been made to arrest this pernicious virus of dishonesty and treachery and enthrone fidelity to agreements with a view to stabilizing the party and moving it forward.

2. To this end, a meeting of the G5 was held in Lagos. In that meeting, I made it clear to the Governor of Oyo State, HE. Seyi Makinde, that he was the architect of our problems, pointing out to him that non-adherence to agreements reached was the bane of the party, and that he was the chief culprit of this anomaly.

At the end of the meeting, we resolved to bury the hatchet and make progress.

3. As a follow-up to the aforementioned meeting, there was an expanded meeting in Abuja involving HE. Seyi Makinde, HE. Umaru Fintri, HE. Bala Mohammed, HE, Bukola Saraki, and I in Saraki’s guest house.

In that meeting, I made it clear that I had no personal problems with HE. Bala Mohammed, except that he hides under the facade of Chairman of PDP Governors Forum to serially renege on agreements. Tensions rose mightily in the meeting and it took all concerned to calm frayed nerves.

At the end of the meeting, we came to some resolutions, including:
a. That Senator Samuel Anyanwu remains the National Secretary of the PDP in tandem with the Supreme Court judgement.
b. All legal matters relating to Rivers State must be withdrawn by the National Legal Adviser.
c. The suit on the State of emergency be withdrawn forthwith.
d. Nobody should deviate from the agreements so reached.

In the light of the foregoing, they pleaded with me to attend the stakeholders’ meeting at the Bauchi Government Lodge, regardless of my many engagements.

I attended the meeting and clearly reiterated my earlier concerns, and to this end and in order to resolve all other lingering and pending issues, a committee was formed, headed by HE. Bukola Saraki.

4. It is disheartening to note that even before the Bukola Saraki Reconciliation Committee began its work, the gentleman’s agreement we reached at Saraki’s Guest House was already being crudely violated.

To my chagrin, Seyi Makinde had connived with Peter Mba of Enugu State to orchestrate the summoning of the meeting of so-called South-East leaders to recommend that if Ude Okoye was not adopted as Secretary, they would pull out of the PDP.

I have since granted an interview to the effect that, that resolution of the South-East leaders can not hold.

Again, Seyi Makinde organized some people in the National Secretariat to insist that the Deputy National Secretary should act as National Secretary, in violation of the agreement earlier reached.

To attempt to give credence to this farce, a letter was written by the Deputy National Secretary, calling for a meeting of the NEC of the party.

Furthermore, the letter confirming the candidacy of the Governorship candidate of the party in the forthcoming Governorship elections in Anambra State, duly signed by the National Secretary, Senator Anyanwu and the acting National Chairman, was portrayed as rejected by the party through a rebuttal letter signed by the National Publicity Secretary, acting on the orders of Seyi Makinde and Peter Mba.

All these actions are in complete violation of the agreements reached and would not do the party any good whatsoever. On the 24th of May 2025, in Jos, for instance, a well publicized and properly attended zonal elective congress of the PDP was aborted because the letter inviting INEC to the congress was signed by the Deputy National Secretary of the party.

INEC refused to attend because the proper signatory recognized by law, that is Senator Samuel Anyanwu was not a signatory to the invitation notice. This is undeniably distasteful, provocative and annoying, to say the least.

5. I have painstakingly put out all these facts so that PDP members and the general public would know the truth. I have been in this party since 1998 and have worked tirelessly for the survival of this party with all my strength and it is on record that none of these persons have done anything close to what I have done to sustain this party.

What is more painful is that I contributed substantially to most of these governors winning their elections, yet I have not made any personal demands on any of them and I would never do so.

Most importantly, I had thought that we could keep the trust amongst us, but since it is now obvious that they would continue to play games to the detriment of the party, as is the case in the current debacle in the North-Central zonal elections, I have now firmly decided to pull out of all agreements hitherto reached.

I have decided to fight on until justice is attained.

Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, CON
Minister, Federal Capital Territory
May 25, 2025

https://news360ng.com/wike-withdraws-from-pdp-reconciliation-efforts-accuses-makinde-party-leaders-of-betrayal/

All these fights and in-fighting were bound to happen. Let the games now truly begin. When they finally realize at the end of PBAT second tenure, they will come to Wike to beg but will not be given audience..

Okay

OK. Nyerishi has spoken.

Atiku 2031 over to u

Tinubu will instruct Wike not to defect..but to eat PDP from inside like a termite.

PDP should have owned up, cut their losses and suspended him a long time ago.

Atiku was afflicted with Yoruba Jazz - shishe shishe. ERROR upon Blunder, you wouldn't be able to stop.

His situation is being 10-0 up in World Cup Final and still losing with 5 minutes to go.

Buhari had been the worst President by far... Tinubu was running on Muslim-Muslim. Yet Atiku managed to lose.

Post party primaries Tinubu visited EVERY contestant including those with zero vote. Atiku started fighting instead of placating.

Newsgeek24:
PDP CRISIS: MY POSITION

1. Since after the 2023 General election, the PDP has been wantonly swinging from one part of a slippery precipice to another, owing fundamentally to dishonesty and lack of trust amongst its key stakeholders.

To stem this ugly trend, efforts have been made to arrest this pernicious virus of dishonesty and treachery and enthrone fidelity to agreements with a view to stabilizing the party and moving it forward.

2. To this end, a meeting of the G5 was held in Lagos. In that meeting, I made it clear to the Governor of Oyo State, HE. Seyi Makinde, that he was the architect of our problems, pointing out to him that non-adherence to agreements reached was the bane of the party, and that he was the chief culprit of this anomaly.

At the end of the meeting, we resolved to bury the hatchet and make progress.

3. As a follow-up to the aforementioned meeting, there was an expanded meeting in Abuja involving HE. Seyi Makinde, HE. Umaru Fintri, HE. Bala Mohammed, HE, Bukola Saraki, and I in Saraki’s guest house.

In that meeting, I made it clear that I had no personal problems with HE. Bala Mohammed, except that he hides under the facade of Chairman of PDP Governors Forum to serially renege on agreements. Tensions rose mightily in the meeting and it took all concerned to calm frayed nerves.

At the end of the meeting, we came to some resolutions, including:
a. That Senator Samuel Anyanwu remains the National Secretary of the PDP in tandem with the Supreme Court judgement.
b. All legal matters relating to Rivers State must be withdrawn by the National Legal Adviser.
c. The suit on the State of emergency be withdrawn forthwith.
d. Nobody should deviate from the agreements so reached.

In the light of the foregoing, they pleaded with me to attend the stakeholders’ meeting at the Bauchi Government Lodge, regardless of my many engagements.

I attended the meeting and clearly reiterated my earlier concerns, and to this end and in order to resolve all other lingering and pending issues, a committee was formed, headed by HE. Bukola Saraki.

4. It is disheartening to note that even before the Bukola Saraki Reconciliation Committee began its work, the gentleman’s agreement we reached at Saraki’s Guest House was already being crudely violated.

To my chagrin, Seyi Makinde had connived with Peter Mba of Enugu State to orchestrate the summoning of the meeting of so-called South-East leaders to recommend that if Ude Okoye was not adopted as Secretary, they would pull out of the PDP.

I have since granted an interview to the effect that, that resolution of the South-East leaders can not hold.

Again, Seyi Makinde organized some people in the National Secretariat to insist that the Deputy National Secretary should act as National Secretary, in violation of the agreement earlier reached.

To attempt to give credence to this farce, a letter was written by the Deputy National Secretary, calling for a meeting of the NEC of the party.

Furthermore, the letter confirming the candidacy of the Governorship candidate of the party in the forthcoming Governorship elections in Anambra State, duly signed by the National Secretary, Senator Anyanwu and the acting National Chairman, was portrayed as rejected by the party through a rebuttal letter signed by the National Publicity Secretary, acting on the orders of Seyi Makinde and Peter Mba.

All these actions are in complete violation of the agreements reached and would not do the party any good whatsoever. On the 24th of May 2025, in Jos, for instance, a well publicized and properly attended zonal elective congress of the PDP was aborted because the letter inviting INEC to the congress was signed by the Deputy National Secretary of the party.

INEC refused to attend because the proper signatory recognized by law, that is Senator Samuel Anyanwu was not a signatory to the invitation notice. This is undeniably distasteful, provocative and annoying, to say the least.

5. I have painstakingly put out all these facts so that PDP members and the general public would know the truth. I have been in this party since 1998 and have worked tirelessly for the survival of this party with all my strength and it is on record that none of these persons have done anything close to what I have done to sustain this party.

What is more painful is that I contributed substantially to most of these governors winning their elections, yet I have not made any personal demands on any of them and I would never do so.

Most importantly, I had thought that we could keep the trust amongst us, but since it is now obvious that they would continue to play games to the detriment of the party, as is the case in the current debacle in the North-Central zonal elections, I have now firmly decided to pull out of all agreements hitherto reached.

I have decided to fight on until justice is attained.

Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, CON
Minister, Federal Capital Territory
May 25, 2025

https://news360ng.com/wike-withdraws-from-pdp-reconciliation-efforts-accuses-makinde-party-leaders-of-betrayal/

I hope Seyi Makinde and Bala will also come out to clear the air in this regard

When we tell Agbados that Wike is the problem, they don't believe. Now, Wike is fighting the G5!

Makinde blindly followed Wike to bury the PDP in 2023!

Tomorrow Wike will be seen as the antagonist. Whereas opposite is the case.

Laughs

For these people (especially GSM who looks like a perfect gentleman) to keep looking for ways to clip Wike's wings, there must be something not sitting right with them about Wike. Before writing anything else, I await their rejoinder.