Crisis: PDP won’t die – Wike

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike has said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will not die in spite of internal crisis.

Wike stated this on Monday evening when he hosted critical stakeholders of the party under the auspices of ‘Concerned Stakeholders of the PDP.’

Present at the meeting were former governors, including Ifeanyi Uguanyi of Enugu, Samuel Ortom of Benue and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia.

Others were the National Secretary of the PDP, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, former Senate Minority Leader, Philip Aduda, serving and former federal and state lawmakers, some zonal and state party executives.

Wike, while addressing the meeting, said the concerned stakeholders are those who have always believed and who still believe in the survival of the party.

“All of you here are those who are committed to the survival of our party not just on TV talking or on the newspapers talking but committed to the party at the various levels.

“Today, this country is stabilized because of the activities of the G5 Governors. You may like us, you may hate us. The truth of the matter is if G5 did not take the decision we took, this country would have been in crisis.

“It doesn’t matter who the beneficiary was but the right thing had to be done and we still stand by that decision.

“If the party had listened to what we said, we won’t have been where we are today and we have continued to sound it to the party, let the constitution of the party and of the country be respected.

“That, as an opposition party, we cannot continue to act with impunity. No opposition party acts with impunity. Ours is to continue to placate people and bring them together, not to say that they should go to hell.

“Let us not allow greed, let us not allow ego to kill our party,” he said.