A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Sule Lamido, has said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has by his intervention in the FCTA Ground rent saga, exposed the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr Nyesom Wike as an unreliable man without tradition and pedigree
This was as Lamido described Wike as a disaster and an ingrate bent on destroying the Party that gave the platform that brought him to political relevance, stressing that President Tinubu may likely abandon him very soon to save his government from further embarrassment.
Lamido, a former governor of Jigawa State and former minister of Foreign Affairs, told journalists during a chat that while Wike claims to love the PDP, he is frontally undermining it and questioned why he is still in the party.
In the words of Lamido; “Here is someone who was honoured by the PDP, brought into relevance by the PDP, and now turns around to fight the very party that made him.
“Wike is quite frankly, a disaster. What he has done is un-African and un-Nigerian. I don’t understand how someone, simply because of his own ambition, can take things so personally and act so destructively.
“There used to be a party culture that prioritized collective good, something altruistic, but that seems lost now.
“To seal the PDP secretariat, a party that produced you, nurtured you, no matter your grievances, no matter your bitterness, it is like destroying your own home. Yet, he claims he financed the party.
“But, is it wrong for a son to take care of his own mother? Does it now mean the mother must submit to the son and take orders from him simply because he is providing her clothing?” he asked.
Lamido therefore declared that he will stop attending statutory meetings of the Party until Wike and the former governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom among others are expelled from the PDP.
Lamido, who is a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) and Board of Trustees (BoT), noted that the duo of Wike and Ortom as well as few others should be expelled from the PDP for working against its interest in the 2023 general elections.
Lamido recalled his stewardship as National Secretary of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP), when he championed the expulsion of the late Arthur Nzeribe from the SDP, and expressed regret over lack of discipline in the PDP.
According to him; “During our time, the party was supreme. It held full authority, and everyone respected it, whether in the North, South, East, or West. Anyone, no matter how influential, who crossed the party line would be sanctioned.
“Today, people openly working against the PDP are still being tolerated. Look at the Board of Trustees (BOT). People like Ortom, who declared support for Peter Obi in 2023, are still members.
“That is why I have said I will not attend any PDP meeting unless Wike is expelled and people like Ortom are removed from the BOT. I remain a PDP member, but I will not participate in party functions or answer calls to meetings while these individuals remain in leadership.
“How can I sit with someone like Ortom in the BOT to discuss the future of PDP? Or someone like Anyanwu, who is rejected in his own zone and now being imposed by another zone? These are impostors.”
“Wike is thinking in a very warped way. He lacks the values and traditions that define our political culture. I’m glad, however, that President Tinubu intervened. The office was reopened by his order. The very man Wike is trying to please by destroying his own political family is the one saying, no, you can’t do that,” he said.
