PDP crisis: No one can drive G5 Governors out of PDP

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has declared that no one in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leadership can drive away the G5 governors from the party.

According to him, the ideas and thoughts of punishing the five aggrieved governors popularly called the G5 or integrity group should be flushed out because it is not possible.

Wike on Tuesday at the kick-off of the construction of Mgbuodohia Road in Rumuolumene Town of Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of the state said no one could sack any member of the group after they have spent many years building the party.

Naija News reports that the governor warned that insulting members of the group by PDP leaders would only not solve the lingering crisis rocking the party but rather escalate it.

He noted that “Nobody can drive us from this house we have built. All of us will fight here. So, if anybody thinks that you can just sit in your house and dish out orders, it will not work. The house will collapse on you. So, you better think twice.”

The governor submitted that instead of the party’s leadership looking critically into the crisis to find solutions, they are busy abusing him.

Wike, who described those abusing him, including a spokesman of the party as jobbers and political flirts jumping from one party to another advanced that only the lovers of the party would be worried about the ongoing crisis.

He said “What did I do? I didn’t do anything. All I did was an express concern. If you care for this party, it is for you to go back and ask, what is fundamentally wrong?

“Me that is worried that we should do something and I have expressed it, you’re abusing me for telling the party that we should do something.

“They are not bothered, but those of us who since 1998 joined this party, contributed to the survival of this party until now, we keep shouting always when we see danger coming.

“Abuses upon abuses, it will not change anything, rather it will spoil more things. What you don’t know, ask people, seek advice, people will help you to solve the problem.”

Clarifying his statement about the endorsement of the flag bearer of the Labour Party, Peter Obi by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Wike remarked that “I meant no harm. I’m only worried as a prominent PDP member. A man who loves PDP should be worried. I was not mocking anybody. I was merely worried. My prayer was, look, let Obasanjo remain quiet and not say anything. That was all my prayer, but my prayer didn’t work.

“My prayer was that if this man makes any statement, it will indict us because he was the president under the PDP for eight years, and he worked with our presidential candidate. And the campaign of our presidential council is that our presidential candidate during the eight years did very well, with experience.”