- Says He’ll Stay In PDP To Work For Tinubu
By Kolawole Ojebisi
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has reafimed his decision to stay in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to show his political adversaries in the party that he is a force to reckon with while they’re spent forces.
Wike maintained that he is not a man who is given to fear in the face of threats hence his declaration of unalloyed support for Tinubu without leaving the PDP.
He disclosed this in an interview with BBC Pidgin, published on Saturday.
The immediate past Rivers helmsman added that former Ebonyi governor, Sam Egwu and former governor of Imo, Achike Udenwa have lost political relevance and can’t push him out of the PDP, claiming that he “can’t leave the house he built.”
Wike said: “I can’t do that, I’m not afraid – how will I build a house and you now ask me to vacate the play.
“It’s you that will leave the house not me that built it. You want to spoil a house that I built, I won’t allow you. I won’t leave, I will remain there.
“Opposition does not show impunity or arrogance, it’s the ruling party that does impunity and arrogance because we are in power.
“The one that pains me is the threats from them (South-East PDP). Let me ask you, who is there? Achike Udenwa who is a former governor of Imo and has no single National Assembly member, he didn’t give his party three percent of votes, yet is threatening.
“Sam Egwu, former Ebonyi State governor has no National Assembly member and did not produce a ⁷governor, yet is threatening – he is empty – which threat is he issuing?
“We that have produced governor, National Assembly members have not issued any threat, it’s you that can’t give your party three percent that is threatening.
“I have told them that if they zone, when we get to the bridge, we will cross it but they are fraudulent and I have told them that it will kill them.”
He also said he won’t run for the 2027 presidency against President Bola Tinubu. Wike said he is currently working with Tinubu, hence he won’t contest against him in 2027.
Asked if he would contest against Tinubu, Wike said: “I will not contest again, I should contest against somebody I’m working with? Who would win it if not him (Tinubu)?”
