*His friends are receiving money through private accounts
*Office of National Leader does not exist in our constitution
The Tanimu Turaki-led Interim National Working Committee (INWC) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says there is nothing the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, can do about the ongoing sales of its nomination and expression of interest forms for the 2027 general elections.
The INWC’s National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja while reacting to Wednesday’s media chat by Wike.
Ememobong insisted that the faction would hold its primary elections where a credible presidential candidate would emerge.
He said that the party understood Wike’s discontent about the commencement of the sales of forms and activities to hold primaries which would culminate in a national convention where a credible Nigerian would emerge as the PDP presidential candidate.
On the minister’s comment about banks that would open accounts for the faction to operate, Ememobong said that Wike was aware that the interim NWC was operating the party’s accounts, “which is why his group of friends are receiving money through private accounts”.
He also said that the party had apologised to Nigerians for offering its platform to Wike through which he became a local government chairman, minister of state and governor.
Ememobong also dismissed the recognition of Wike as national leader of PDP, saying such an office does not exist in the party’s constitution.
“On the issues he (Wike) raised about the judgement, while awaiting the release of the Certified True Copies of the dismissed cross-appeals, we would be glad to have the minister tell the world what the reliefs in the cross-appeals filed by his friends were and what the judgement of the court was,” he said.
