Nyesom Wike, Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has threatened to bring trouble on states controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, if the governors go ahead to poke nose on the crisis rocking Rivers State.
The PDP currently has 13 states with one of them, Rivers State, in political crisis arising from tussle between the governor, Siminalayi Fubara, and Wike.
The ex-governor’s open romance with the ruling All Progressives Congress has polarised the PDP both nationally and in Rivers.
Recently the 13 governors elected under PDP announced their resolve to take sides with Fubara, a support the FCT Minister said it would cost them peace in their states.
This, Wike said at a factional PDP Congress in Rivers, saying: “Some governors say they will take the structure from us and give it to somebody. I hear that they have given them assurance that they will take the party from us. I pity those governors because I will put fire in their states. When God has given you peace, you say you don’t want peace. Whether you are in Bauchi or wherever, your hands will get burnt. You will never see pace again.
“So I’ve told them, now you have started, when I will start, don’t say I’m the one that destroyed PDP, you are the one that is trying to destroy PDP. Allow Rivers State to conduct the affairs of the party, we are aware of these unstable characters, we know that they are joining APP, let them wait during the time, they should face us in the election, don’t bother about our abuses, we have thick skin, we don’t even know what abuse is, so don’t say anybody is abusing me, of I’m nothing, they will not abuse me.”
