The plot against Chief Nyesome Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is thickening as members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP are perfecting multi-prong plans to oust him from the party.
Ijaw leader and chieftain of the PDP, Chief Edwin Clark is leading a fresh charge against the former Rivers State, after he addressed a news conference in Abuja, calling for Wike’s ouster.
Meanwhile, the Board of Trustees of the party met with Wike’s adversary and success, Governor Siminilaye Fubara, at the government house after Clark’s news conference.
Clark also did not spare the National Chairman of the PDP, Umar Damagum, whom he accused of shielding the FCT Minister and working against his party.
Clark, in a highly publicized open letter to Damagum, slammed the party chairman as a man without the interest of the party.
The former Information Minister further criticized Damagum’s handling of the defection of 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly to the ruling APC.
The letter reads in part: “As Acting National Chairman of your party, you took your party’s National Working Committee (NWC) to court on the defection of the 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, because they did leave the PDP properly, they are still members of the party, even after they had publicly declared that they have defected, and had already been received by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“Your position is antithetical to the position of Section 109. You took your party’s National Executive Council (NEC) to court, an organ you presided over.
“Yet, you still have the presence of mind to remain in office, earning benefits as the chairman,” Clark stated, adding that Damagum was working with the APC to destabilise the PDP.”
Reacting to speculations about his membership of PDP, Wike while speaking on his first year in office as FCT minister, vowed to silence his critics and opponents.
He said, “I won’t fold my arms and allow the party I have suffered for over the years to continuously do injustice to members. I will not accept that.”
