PDP crisis: Obaseki says it’s time to discipline Wike

Nyesom Wike, the former governor of Rivers State, should be punished, according to Dr. Pedro Obaseki, a PDP chieftain and the director of research and documentation for the party’s Presidential Campaign Council (PCC).

Obaseki claims that Wike is a habitual traitor who founded the gang of five governors that engaged in a number of anti-party offences against the PDP on February 25.

Speaking in a statement made public on Tuesday was Obaseki.

The statement reads, “Wike has crossed the red line and now, he should be ready, coming out to ask for the expulsion of the party’s top leader, its presidential flagbearer, and the recipient of the mandate of the Nigerian people as declared in INEC’s submission that we won 21 states, and asking Atiku to be expelled from the party.

“We are coming at him like a tonne of bricks, and he has all the money to fight us back.

He has let loose the battle dogs, and we won’t stand by and let him ride rough over the party and the majority of Nigerians, as he did for eight years over the humility of the Rivers people. That is no longer adequate.

Wike was also tasked by Obaseki with disclosing his bank account both before and after his eight-year term as governor of Rivers state.

“Wike is a member of the APC and a sitting Minister of an APC government,” Obaseki continued. Wike publicly ran an anti-PDP campaign. You see, we will recognise them based on their fruits. Wike is not technically a PDP member, to all intents and purposes.

If you recall correctly, Barrister Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State at the time, raced to the court to obtain an injunction to prevent the PDP from exiling him from the party just a few months before the election.

“Why would he do that if he was so untouchable and bigger than the entire party apparatus? Wike is a lieutenant of Satan, whether we like it or not.

“Perhaps that is what decreased the leaders of the party’s willingness to take appropriate action. Let’s see whether he would change his mind because many of them are doves—men of peace—instead of hawks like Wike. The PDP is not a band of outlaws.