2027: Turaki-Led PDP Faction Disagrees With Wike Over Tinubu Support
The Kabiru Tanimu Turaki-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on party members to disregard the statement attributed to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, that the party has collapsed its structure for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election.
New Telegraph reports that Wike had said in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Monday, during a meeting with SIMPLIFIED Group (Sim Fubara Support Group), that all PDP members must work for President Tinubu’s re-election.
However, the PDP, in a statement by the Publicity Secretary of the Interim National Working Committee (INWC), Comrade Ini Ememobong, said there is nothing new in what Wike said, “except for the fact that his message is not directed at real PDP members.”
The party described Wike and others like him as pretenders in the opposition but who are working for the governing party.
“The true and principled members of the Peoples Democratic Party are not part of the shameless, self-serving support for the APC-led Federal Government and its destructive policies.
“The paramount duty of the opposition is to provide an alternative to the incumbent, not to massage their ego.
“If at all opposition parties are to have an alliance, it will be amongst themselves, not with the governing party,” the faction stated, describing Wike’s rainbow coalition as a political anomaly, which it added, “is the greatest threat to electoral democracy and the fastest way of railroading the country into an electoral monarchy.”
The PDP faction urged the people it regarded as “true and faithful PDP members” to remain steadfast as the party awaits the judgment, which it hoped would be in its favour.
“Our case at the Court of Appeal has been heard, and we await judgment. We know that the entire judiciary is conscious that justice delayed is justice denied.
“Nigerians should be wary of elite accommodation and state capture masquerading as broad-based political collaboration.
“The election next year provides a great opportunity to vote out these insensitive and irresponsible political actors,” it added.
