Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), will be expelled from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), according to Daniel Bwala, a former spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Council in the 2023 presidential election.
A day after Wike, a former governor of Rivers State, dared the PDP leadership to expel him from the party for endorsing the election of President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and subsequently serving in his cabinet as a minister, Bwala appeared on Channels Television’s Politics Today program on Thursday night.
“Why we hardly react to what he (Wike) says is because he loves drama, everybody knows that,” Bwala said.
“The quietness of the party is not weakness…the party knows what it is doing. At the appropriate time, he (Wike) would not only be suspended but expelled. Take that to the bank.”
Although Wike has the ability to build the FCT, the PDP leader claimed that he is a “glorified commissioner” who should not assume control of a state on his own.
Wike has proven to be the most effective of the President’s 45 ministers, according to Bwala, but the FCT minister is cautioned not to go on a vengeance mission against rivals in the capital by threatening to destroy their buildings.
The PDP leader said that the minister cannot terrorize FCT citizens by threatening to tear down buildings outside the boundaries of Abuja’s original Master Plan.
The Aso Rock and several military barracks, according to the lawyer, were not initially included in the FCT Master Plan, and the minister should dismantle those structures before “terrorizing” Abuja civilians with demolition threats, the lawyer argued.