Wike vows he will make the party takes disciplinary actions against Shaibu for threatening to leave the PDP.
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has blasted Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, for threatening to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Wike said this in a video that surfaced on Twitter on Saturday, March 12, 2022.
The visibly angry governor went on a long rant to tongue lash Shaibu for daring to threaten the PDP on a national television.
Recall that Shaibu had appeared on a Channels Television program where he said he and Governor Godwin Obaseki may resort to leaving the PDP if the party continues to treat them like outcasts.
The Edo PDP has been rocked by an internal strife for leadership since Obaseki and Shaibu joined the party from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Shaibu claimed in the interview that the original Edo PDP has refused to embrace the new-PDP (referring to those who joined them from the APC).
He said there was a sharing formular agreed to by the stakeholders which prescribes that some of the original PDP member be given political appointments in Obaseki’s government, while some new-PDP members would also be given positions in the party executives.
Shaibu added that while the new-PDP has fulfilled its own end of the bargain, the original PDP has refused to do so likewise. He said this attitude is an indication that they are not welcomed in the party.
He then went ahead to warn the national body of PDP to intervene otherwise they may be forced to seek an alternative party to join.
Reacting to what appears to be a threat by the deputy governor, Wike wondered how Shaibu got the audacity to make that sort of comment on a television.
He also expressed sadness that the same people that came to beg for the PDP ticket after the APC rejected them would now turn around to be making uncomplimentary comments about the party’s leadership.
“Threatening the party, that the there are alternative to PDP. This is the same people that were kneeling down to beg for us to give them the umbrella, today you’ve the effrontery to threaten the PDP. Such a shame. These are the same people when they were denied ticket under APC, they were running helter-skelter begging everybody to give them umbrella and we gave them umbrella.”
“We went and made sure that they won that election, today that deputy governor would be ranting. A deputy governor would come out on television to tell PDP that there are alternative. I’ve written to the National Chairman of the party, if they don’t constitute a disciplinary committee against the deputy governor, I would make sure I invoke the sections of the party and I would make sure they must discipline that deputy governor.”
“And he lost his local government when we were in Edo, he lost. And he would come out on television to threaten the party that there are alternatives, look at the deputy governor, it’s unfortunate.”
Wike also made reference to Shaibu’s famous choice of dressing asking how a deputy governor on the PDP platform would be donning khaki.
