The Tanimu Turaki-led Interim National Working Committee (INWC) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday dismissed the recognition of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, as the party’s national leader.
The faction also declared that there is nothing the minister can do about the ongoing sales of the nomination and expression of interest forms for the 2027 general elections.
The INWC’s National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, stated these in Abuja.
He was reacting to Wednesday’s media chat by the former Rivers State governor.
The spokesman declared that the office of national leader does not exist in the party’s constitution.
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Ememobong insisted that the faction would hold its primary elections where a credible presidential candidate would emerge.
He said the party understood Wike’s discontent about the commencement of the sales of forms and activities for the conduct of the presidential primaries.
Ememobong added that the party had apologised to Nigerians for offering its platform to Wike to become a local government chairman, minister of state and governor.
“On the issues he (Wike) raised about the judgment, while awaiting the release of the Certified True Copies of the dismissed cross-appeals, we would be glad to have the minister tell the world what the reliefs in the cross-appeals filed by his friends were and what the judgment of the court was,” the faction’s spokesman concluded.