By Our Reporter
Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has described the recognition of the party’s faction led by the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as ‘the greatest joke of the year’.
In a statement on Monday, George reiterated his earlier position that “Wike and some characters with him were expelled in Ibadan last November. They are just about two per cent of our party population. What INEC has just done has clearly confirmed what it wants to do during the 2027 presidential election. INEC doesn’t want any other party to field a presidential candidate to challenge Bola Tinubu”.
The statement reads further: “What INEC has just done by the recognition of
Wike’s gang can only spell doom for this country because we are yet to attain nationhood with this type of pettiness. I am shocked that Prof. Amupitan assumed office only to recognise a less than 2% of PDP membership, who are only renegades, who have sold the party to the APC.
“Those founding fathers of our party will perpetually be cursing them because this is unacceptable. It is a dereliction of civility, legality as well as a shock.
“In the past, some people tried this and they didn’t succeed. I pray this country doesn’t go up in flames.
“INEC has just brought the greatest insult to Nigeria and the Nigerian people by supporting these renegades.
“We are waiting, I am waiting. I call on our people to wait for the Supreme Court judgement which will see the liberation of this country from this shenanigan. The truth must prevail, the will of the people must prevail, not this devilish, destabilising, disgusting approach to addressing governance. Everybody who wants to contest on the platform of PDP must be allowed to do so.
“INEC has just given room to Wike and his gang to decimate our party. I’m utterly disgusted, disappointed that the only political party that has been able to provide solutions to the perennial problems of this country is being dismantled. Myself and people of likeminds know that the will of the Almighty will prevail, that the will of the people of Nigeria will prevail. This shenanigan by the electoral body will not stand. It is absolute lunacy.
“This INEC is very sick, deceitful and dishonest, and not fit to manage the democracy of our great country”.