Don’t blackmail Wabara with media campaign – PDP group warns Wike

A pro-PDP group under the aegis of PDP Frontiers for Change and Progress has alleged that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, is behind the media campaign launched against the Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Adolphus Wabara.

The group, which addressed journalists in Umuahia, Abia State, also alleged that the FCT Minister was behind the political crisis in Rivers State.

The group’s national coordinator, Emeka “Yellow” Ikpegbu, decried Wike’s reaction to the recent visit of PDP BoT members to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, saying no media campaign targeting Wabara and other PDP BoT members over their visit to the governor would succeed.

The group supported the recent call by Niger Delta leader and elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, for Wike to be expelled from the PDP.

The national coordinator, who said Wike was shocked by the visit of the BoT members and their assurances to the governor, noted that the solidarity visit was part of efforts aimed at rebuilding the PDP in Rivers State and other parts of the country.

“This visit has the full support of PDP progressives across all geopolitical zones. Wike believes he can still control the state after being in power for eight years.”

He urged other stakeholders, especially the PDP governors, to unite behind the board members in their sincere efforts to reposition the party for a “landfall victory in 2027.”

According to the group, the FCT Minister has failed in his plans to make Governor Siminalayi Fubara a stooge.

Ikpegbu therefore urged PDP leaders and stakeholders to rise up against godfatherism and enthrone internal democracy, stressing that godfatherism has been a major factor threatening the party cadre.