A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, has disclosed that he would have frozen the membership status of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, if he were the party’s National Chairman.

 

Sowunmi said he would have meted out the same treatment universities give lecturers on sabbatical to Wike if he were the PDP’s National Chairman.

 

Speaking on Nigeria Info FM, the former spokesman of the PDP’s ex-presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, said he wouldn’t have allowed Wike to join President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet as minister if he were the party’s National Chairman.

 

Sowunmi also disclosed that he would have been very hard on Atiku due to remarks by his loyalists that the PDP is dead.

 

According to Sowunmi: “If I were the National Chairman of PDP and Wike came to tell me that they have invited him to join the APC, I would have frozen his membership and treated him the way universities treat those that go on sabbatical.

 

“When you are on sabbatical, your membership is frozen, and when you return, it’s activated. By freezing his membership, that means you can’t be in charge of the party’s structure either in Rivers or anywhere. You can’t attend our meetings, and if you return, we are going to give you three months for debriefing so that you can dump all the jargon you learned from them.

 

“There is no way on earth I would have allowed him to serve in the APC and still sit as a member and an authority in the party. I would not have allowed that as Chairman because it would have been wrong.

 

“I’m not disrespectfully saying this, but that is the proper thing a futurist political party will do.

 

“If I were the National Chairman, right now I would have been very hard on Atiku by sending him a very clear message—call your dogs to order. You can’t insist that Damagum is in acting capacity and then the party is dead. I won’t allow that.”