The Peoples Democratic Party has painted a sweeping portrait of Minister Nyesom Wike as a man who repeatedly builds and then destroys party leaders, calling him a “permanent agent provocateur” whose politics “thrives on perpetual conflict.”
In a detailed statement on Monday, December 29, National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, said Wike has been “a recurrent troublemaker in the leadership of the PDP” since he became Rivers governor in 2015.
“Since he assumed power as Governor in Rivers State in 2015, Wike has been a recurrent troublemaker in the leadership of the PDP.
“From the Sheriff era, where he was a forerunner in the Sheriff-for-National Chairman movement and later turned to fight and remove Sheriff; later he championed the Uche Secondus-for-National Chairman movement (in fact, he granted a very combustible interview that polarized the party just before the convention) and then was the same person fighting to remove Secondus,” the statement said.
“The same Wike led the movement to produce Dr. Iyorchia Ayu as National Chairman against the advice of many party leaders, and so soon thereafter, it was Wike again who led the Ayu-must-go struggle,” it added.
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Beyond Abuja intrigues, the PDP accused Wike of anti‑democratic conduct at home.
“The imposition of candidates, internal exclusionary practices, and the unprecedented prevention of a duly nominated PDP presidential candidate from campaigning in a PDP-controlled state remain troubling departures from democratic norms,” the party said, in a reference to events in Rivers during the 2023 campaign.
According to Ememobong, “Wike’s politics thrives on perpetual conflict, feeding on attention and seeking relevance through calculated disruption and when starved of attention, seeks to destroy everything.”
The party said that in his recent interview, Wike “showed obvious signs of fear of losing the attention of the President, his slipping grip of Rivers State, and his frustration with the unbending nature of the true leadership of the PDP at the national level,” arguing that his tactics are now fully exposed.