The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike said he has decided to pull out of all agreements hitherto reached to ensure peace return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and resolved to fight on until justice is attained.
Wike in a statement issued Sunday also fingered the Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde and Peter Mba of Enugu state of reneging on the agreement reached to put an end to the crisis in the main opposition party.
He noted that 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.
Wike explained that to stem this ugly trend, efforts were made to arrest this pernicious virus of dishonesty and treachery and enthrone fidelity to agreements with a view to stabilising the party and moving it forward.
He added that it was against this background that a meeting of the G5 was held in Lagos.
According to him, In that meeting, I made it clear to the Governor of Oyo State, 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.
Wike added that as a follow-up to the aforementioned meeting, there was an expanded meeting in Abuja involving Makinde, Governor Umaru Fintri of Adamawa state, Bala Mohammed of Bauchi, former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and himself at Saraki’s guest house.
In that meeting, Wike said he made it clear that he had no personal problems with Mohammed, except that he hides under the facade of Chairman of PDP Governors Forum to serially renege on agreements.
He noted that tensions rose mightily in the meeting and it took all concerned to calm frayed nerves.
He said at the end of the meeting, we came to some resolutions, including: That Senator Samuel Anyanwu remains the National Secretary of the PDP in tandem with the Supreme Court judgement; All legal matters relating to Rivers State must be withdrawn by the National Legal Adviser; The suit on the State of emergency be withdrawn forthwith and nobody should deviate from the agreements so reached.
Wike stated: “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.”
The minister said it was disheartening that before the Saraki Reconciliation Committee began its work, the gentleman’s agreement they reached at Saraki’s Guest House was already being crudely violated.
He said: “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 organised 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.
“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.”