The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) in Injurious River Insist, Venatius Ikem, has vowed that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, will no longer be allowed to discover who turns into the birthday party’s subsequent allege chairman.
Ikem made the allege on Friday whereas responding to the declaration by the Injurious River South Senatorial District PDP caucus that Wike’s faction of the birthday party would no longer create the next allege chairman.
The caucus, in a communiqué signed by the allege Vice Chairman, Asuquo Ekpo, after its assembly in Calabar on Wednesday, condemned the Abuja gathering of Wike’s loyalists, which called for an extension of the tenure of the allege’s incumbent chairman.
Equally, at a stakeholders’ assembly on Thursday, the Central Senatorial District caucus of the PDP faulted Wike’s alleged interference within the birthday party’s affairs, arguing that the Minister regarded to be a member of the All Progressives Congress.
The caucus declared birthday party stalwart, Tim Ekawu, as its most neatly-liked chairmanship candidate for the September 27, 2025, congress.
Ikem, on the opposite hand, brushed aside speculations that Wike would possibly maybe maybe impact the birthday party’s leadership within the allege.
Speaking with Punch, he acknowledged that the birthday party’s structures and procedures would resolve its subsequent leadership.
“Wike is no longer from Injurious River Insist. Wike doesn’t create chairmen in Injurious River Insist,” Ikem acknowledged.
He added that the allege’s PDP has “statutory” processes for electing its executives and that due direction of would be followed.
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