Olushola Omogbehin
The rift between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike and Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, took a new dimension yesterday as the due engaged in war of words over issues bothering on the crisis rocking the Peoples’ Democratic Party.
In a media chat with journalists on Tuesday, Makinde disclosed that his issue with Wike was when he said he would hold PDP for President Tinubu in 2027 during one of their meetings with the President.
“Within one year, I made $1 million in my pocket. I was 29 in 1997. Wike, perhaps at that time, had just left law school, and his next job was as a local government chairman. I don’t beef anybody.
“The real issue is that I was with President Tinubu and Wike, and I’m saying this in open chat. The President Chief of Staff was also in that meeting.
“Wike said he would hold PDP for President Tinubu in 2027. I was in shock. So when we got up to the verander I asked him, “Wike, did we agree to this”?
“Some of us that want to ensure that democracy survives in Nigeria, we won’t drift into one-party state and we want to make sure that PDP survives,” he said.
Wike and Makinde were members of the Group of Five (G5) Peoples Democratic Party governors who supported Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 elections.
However, things fell apart for them after the 2023 election when PDP held its convention in Ibadan, Oyo State, and suspended Wike and other high-ranking party members.
