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Wike having fun at expense of PDP – Adeniyi

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A professor of Communications at Baze University, Abuja, Abiodun Adeniyi, has said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is facing a deep internal crisis worsened by the influence of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike.

Adeniyi said that the minister seemed to be having fun at the expense of the party, arguing that the PDP’s internal cohesion has been broken, leaving the party unable to rebuild itself.

According to him, the Wike factor cannot be undermined in the bid for the PDP to make progress.

He warned that if the PDP undermines Wike, they will be undermining the process they want to make.

He stated this on Friday while fielding questions on Arise Television’s Prime Time programme, noting that the party is at an “abysmal low”.

He said: “I think it’s very important for us to underscore the fact that the PDP is at an abysmal low, and that low is coming from the fact that the spirit of the party, the spirit of the need to build a team is already broken, and if you do not mend that spirit, there’s nothing else that you do that will work.

“You know, we’ll have a very powerful minister that seems to be having fun at the expense of the party.

“He has got an interest in an opposition party, and he still has refused to leave, you know, the party that he has ordinarily belonged to many years before.

“Now, his factor cannot be undermined in the bid for PDP to make progress, if they imagine they can undermine him, they will be undermining as well the progress that they want to make.

“Unfortunately, now what I rather think they should do, and of course, if it is not done in immediate circumstance, like Baba Yusuf said, we should be expecting a third party intervention, third party represented in the judiciary.

“And when a third party is coming in, you do not know whether it will go left or right, irrespective of how you think, how correct you think you are.

“So what I think the party should do is not to be tired of conciliation, not to be tired of dialogue and diplomatic moves to assuage whichever group, and in this case, the most potent being the one led by the FCT minister.

“They should, I think, continue to try to mend fences, because if they ignore this part, resulting in extreme words that I see them beginning to use, you know, they begin to see words that are absolute, that can be hurting.

“Then of course, the broken spirits might just continue to degenerate into a low that they ordinarily shouldn’t find themselves.

“Remember also that the PDP is still suffering from the exits of major stakeholders, people who have been the bedrock of the party over the years.

“Some of them are in ADC now, some are in APC, and they’re just catered all over the place. That’s a major concern that they should ordinarily be worried about.

“But beyond that also is an internal disease that they are yet to deal with. That disease, so to say, speaking rhetorically, has to be dealt with. It cannot be ignored.”

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Olusegun Obasanjo’s Daughter Declares For Ogun Governorship, Joins APC

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Prof. Iyabo Obasanjo, daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has declared her intention to contest the 2027 governorship election in Ogun State under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

She made the declaration during an interview with Nigerian football legend Segun Odegbami on 103.7FM Eagle7 Sports, on Saturday.

The former commissioner ruled out a return to the Senate, stating that her focus is firmly on the governorship race.

“So moving ahead, I’m not going to be Commissioner. Like I said, I’m not even going back to the same party because I think that’s old and I don’t see the use of it. And I’m not going to go back to the Senate,” she said.

“Like the American would say, there’s no need. And this is what I told my associates, when this all started. I said, the only thing I’ll come back to do is the governorship.

“And we have started that journey. We are going to see it through. And so that’s the journey I’m on. And we are very serious about it. I mean we are very dedicated to it.”

The politician also confirmed that she recently joined the APC, explaining that her return to active politics followed persistent calls from supporters.

“Like I told you, a group of people who I did not bring together, have been working, I think, for two years now. And then they started talking to me about a year ago, saying, ‘Look, we think you are the best candidate. We want you back,’” she added.

Her declaration sets the stage for what may become a keenly contested governorship race in Ogun State ahead of the 2027 elections.

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Nyesom Wike wishes de@th on any politician supporting ‘’betrayers’

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FCT Minister and former governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, has said that any senator, House of Representatives Member, Minister, or governor who supports betrayers will suffer betrayal in their lives and that such person will join their creator when they experience their own betrayal.

Wike who is currently in a running battle with his godson and incumbent governor of Rivers state, Sim Fubara, said this while speaking at a public function in the state today February 6.

Speaking to the crowd at the public function, Wike said

‘’Wether you are a Senator, House of Reps member, a Minister or Governor, and you support betrayers, people will continue to betray you in life. You see people who betray and support them, betrayal is your portion! Betrayal is your portion! and that day you will not have mouth to say anything and there you will collapse and there you will go and they will announce such person has died because that is the seed you have planted because whatever you plant, you reap and so since you are sowing betrayal, betrayal will always follow you.

Watch! Every governor who is doing his second term and has ambition to put a successor and is supporting betrayals, you will never survive it. Betrayal will follow you. From the day your successor comes in. My own took so many months, your own will start immediately the person has been inaugurated. That is what the gods of the land have told me to tell all of you’’

 

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How Buhari shocked me 6 months into his administration – Oyegun

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Chairman, Policy Manifesto Committee of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, John Odigie-Oyegun, says former president Muhammadu Buhari gave him the shock of his life, six months into his administration as Nigeria’s leader.

Oyegun made this disclosure on Friday when he featured in an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’.

He revealed that as National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, he went to tell Buhari that he was not delivering his election promises to Nigerians but that the late president told him he would not rule with strictness, but rather wanted to show Nigerians that he is a true civilian president.

The former APC National Chairman lamented that it became business as usual, from there.

“I was national chairman of the APC. Six months or less into our assuming office, fairly alarmed, I went to the late President Buhari for a one-on-one talk. I said Mr President, this is not what the people were expecting. They wanted a bit of the old president Buhari.

“And he explained to me, Mr Chairman, I have learned my lesson. I was shocked. And don’t forget at that time, a lot of prominent Nigerians took their holidays abroad, just to be sure and see what this new sheriff in town will be.

“Buhari told me he wants to now show the people that he’s a true civilian president in Agbada. And by the time we finished the conversation, I said Oh God, we are finished. Because, if he’s not ready to be strict, what’s the point?

“Weeks later, months later, years later, I was proven correct. And of course, it became business as usual, only that they are a new set of tenants in Aso Rock. That was a shocker,” he said.

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