I’m Still in PDP- Wike

By Nelson Utip

Nyesom Wike, The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT says that he is still a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP but decided to take a break.

The immediate past governor of oil-rich Rivers state stated this while filing questions from a group of Journalists in Abuja recently.

“I am a member of the PDP. ”Have you ever seen me change anything?

“The one I supported before, what happened? I have decided to take a break. As you see me now, everybody should carry their cross.

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“I was in PDP, and I did not hide it: ’ told them I was not going to support their presidential candidate. Is it that I spoke or acted in a way people did not understand?” The Minister said.

On the possibility of his being sanctioned by PDP he responded:

“Discipline me for what? That I did what? I am an advocate of the party’s constitution. Assuming we lost the governorship, will they be talking about Rivers as a PDP state?

“Now is the time for governance. Now is the time” to do your assignment “nt. The president has given me an assignment and I am busy carrying out my assignment.

“When the time for politics comes, we will know who is where and who is not where.”

Wike’s wrangling with PDP started after the primaries of the last presidential election last year where he and his group insisted that the party maintain its internal power-sharing formula by zoning the presidential ticket to southern Nigeria.

Wike openly supported the candidacy of President Bola Tinubu of APC and was rewarded with the appointment as Minister of The FCT.