Fresh crisis hits PDP as Wike ‘pulls out of all agreements’

The Minister insisted that
resolutions reached that Senator Samuel Anyanwu remained the National Secretary
of PDP in tandem with the Supreme Court judgement, all legal matters relating
to Rivers State be withdrawn by the National Legal Adviser, the suit on the
state of emergency be withdrawn forthwith, and that nobody should deviate from
the agreements so reached, must be respected by all the parties involved.

‘Since 2023’

The statement read: “Since after
the 2023 general election, PDP has been wantonly swinging from one part of a
slippery precipice to another, owing fundamentally to dishonesty and lack of
trust amongst its key stakeholders.

“To stem this ugly trend, efforts
have been made to arrest this pernicious virus of dishonesty and treachery and
enthrone fidelity to agreements with a view to stabilizing the party and moving
it forward.

“To this end, a meeting of the G5
was held in Lagos.

“In that meeting, I made it clear
to the Governor of Oyo State, H.E. Seyi Makinde, that he was the architect of
our problems, pointing out to him that non-adherence to agreements reached was
the bane of the party, and that he was the chief culprit of this anomaly. At
the end of the meeting, we resolved to bury the hatchet and make progress.

 “As a follow-up to the aforementioned meeting,
there was an expanded meeting in Abuja involving H.E. Seyi Makinde, H.E. Umaru
Fintri, H.E. Bala Mohammed, H.E. Bukola Saraki, and in Saraki’s guest house. In
that meeting, I made it clear that I had no personal problems with H.E. Bala
Mohammed, except that he hides under the facade of Chairman of PDP Governors
Forum to serially renege on agreements.

The resolutions

“Tensions rose mightily in the
meeting and it took all concerned to calm frayed nerves. At the end of the
meeting, we came to some resolutions, including:

“That Senator Samuel Anyanwu
remains the National Secretary of the PDP in tandem with the Supreme Court
judgement, all legal matters relating to Rivers State must be withdrawn by the
National Legal Adviser, the suit on the state of emergency be withdrawn
forthwith, and nobody should deviate from the agreements so reached.

“In the light of the foregoing,
they pleaded with me to attend the stakeholders’ meeting at the Bauchi
Government Lodge, regardless of my many engagements. I attended the meeting and
clearly reiterated my earlier concerns, and to this end and in order to resolve
all other lingering and pending issues, a committee was formed, headed by H.E.
Bukola Saraki.

“It is disheartening to note that
even before the Bukola Saraki Reconciliation Committee began its work, the
gentleman’s agreement we reached at Saraki’s Guest House was already being
crudely violated.

Seyi Makinde

“To my chagrin, Seyi Makinde had
connived with Peter Mba of Enugu State to orchestrate the summoning of the
meeting of so-called South-East leaders to recommend that if Ude Okoye was not
adopted as Secretary, they would pull out of the PDP. I have since granted an
interview to the effect that, that resolution of the South-East leaders cannot
hold.

“Again, Seyi Makinde organised
some people in the National Secretariat to insist that the Deputy National
Secretary should act as National Secretary, in violation of the agreement
earlier reached. To attempt to give credence to this farce, a letter was
written by the Deputy National Secretary, calling for a meeting of the NEC of
the party.

“Furthermore, the letter
confirming the candidacy of the governorship candidate of the party in the
forthcoming governorship elections in Anambra State, duly signed by the
National Secretary, Senator Anyanwu and the acting National Chairman, was
portrayed as rejected by the party through a rebuttal letter signed by the
National Publicity Secretary, acting on the orders of Seyi Makinde and Peter
Mba.

“All these actions are in
complete violation of the agreements reached and would not do the party any
good whatsoever.

“On the 24th of May 2025, in Jos,
for instance, a well publicised and properly attended zonal elective congress
of the PDP was aborted because the letter inviting INEC to the congress was
signed by the Deputy National Secretary of the party. INEC refused to attend
because the proper signatory recognized by law, that is Senator Samuel Anyanwu,
was not a signatory to the invitation notice.

“This is undeniably distasteful,
provocative and annoying, to say the least.

“I have painstakingly put out all
these facts so that PDP members and the general public would know the truth. I
have been in this party since 1998 and have worked tirelessly for the survival
of this party with all my strength and it is on record that none of these
persons have done anything close to what I have done to sustain this party.

“What is more painful is that I
contributed substantially to most of these governors winning their elections,
yet I have not made any personal demands on any of them and I would never do
so.

“Most importantly, I had thought
that we could keep the trust amongst us, but since it is now obvious that they
would continue to play games to the detriment of the party, as is the case in
the current debacle in the North-Central zonal elections, I have now firmly
decided to pull out of all agreements hitherto reached.

“I have decided to fight on until
justice is attained.”