Wike: PDP can’t resolve its leadership crisis if members keep trying to bring me down

Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will be unable to resolve its internal crises if members keep trying to undermine him. 

Speaking during a media chat in Abuja on Wednesday, Wike described the current leadership failure in the opposition party as the worst in its history.

”Let me tell you the problem—it is not that the PDP cannot get its acts together; it is this personal ambition,” the minister said.

“This attitude that ‘I must bring Wike down’. When all you attempt is to bring me down, you make mistakes. Wike will not go down, which is true.”

He said the PDP is not focused on tackling its crisis because some members are making every effort to undermine him.

He also accused Bala Muhammed, governor of Bauchi and chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, of poor leadership and failing to organised the party.

“PDP has never had it this bad in terms of leadership, particularly from the chairman of the governors’ forum. And I knew it would be so. Leadership is not by mouth. It is about talking; it is by action,” he said.

“How do you know when people are treacherous? When Tambuwal finished as the chairman of the PDP governors’ forum, the position has always been rotating between the north and south.

“But Bala and co connived and went to Bauchi and took away the chairman of the governors’ forum of the PDP to the north.

“Of course, he knows, if I was governor, it wouldn’t happen. For me as a leader, you must have to make sacrifices.

“You must have the capacity to galvanise the people. You are in the opposition party. You are not in the ruling party. People will see that you are serious about taking over power.

“How has he (Mohammed) mobilised his colleagues by funding the party to make sure that the party is effective and efficient through the national working committee?”