Wike’s Expulsion Final, PDP In Talks With Jonathan, Peter Obi, says PDP Nat. Chairman

The National Chairman of the Official Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Nigeria, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN), has stated that despite the expulsion of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and his loyalists from the party, he still regards the former Rivers State Governor as a friend.

Turaki, speaking in an interview on the Nigeria Right Now Show hosted by Dickson Iregbu, also disclosed that the PDP has constituted a formidable legal team to reclaim the mandates of the 16 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly who recently defected.

While stressing that he does not deny his friends, Turaki drew a firm line regarding Wike’s party status, noting that the decision of the party’s highest organ, the National Convention, is final.

He said: “For me, I honestly don’t like speaking about personalities. But the situation that we have found ourselves in now and relative to the question is such that I would have to take exceptions to that. Now, my friend and very good friend Barr Nyesom Wike…. He is my friend. I don’t deny my friends, he has been my colleague, he has been a very good friend but he is no longer a member of the PDP.”

He added that the expulsion can only be overturned by God, regretting that the expelled persons chose to “hallucinate and deceive others” over their exit.

“You can’t break the rules of the union and you continue to say you must be a member. Things are not done that way in a decent society. And PDP is a decent organisation,” he asserted.

Reacting to the mass defection of lawmakers in Rivers State, the Chairman confirmed the party’s immediate legal strategy to challenge the move.

He said: “We have raised a legal team to challenge the seat of the 16 members who defected last week in Rivers State.”

Regarding the defection of the Rivers and Osun State governors, Turaki admitted they have an “inalienable right” to leave the party.