The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Mr Nyesom Wike, on Saturday, August 8, took the former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, to the cleaners.
He said he has no regret stopping him from becoming the party’s National Chairman. He is angry because we didn’t allow him to be PDP National Chairman and there is no regret in doing so,” Wike said.
Wike made the remarks through a statement issued on Saturday by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka.
In the statement, the FCT Minister said the political frustration of Bode George has further been compounded by the emergence of Deji Doherty, a personality he does not want to see as the one in charge of the party in Lagos State.
Wike said: “He wanted to be PDP National Chairman and he was carrying on like the position was his birthright. We stopped him because it was the turn of the South-South. Since then, he has not stopped being angry.
“As a sitting governor, I visited his house in Maitama, Abuja, to appease him after the national convention, his wife attempted to walk me out, but for the intervention of former governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko,” the minister said.
He described Bode George as a politician, who, despite all the privileges and power, has not won anything for the PDP in Lagos State since 1999.
“We have managed him even though we know that he has no value. But as it is, since he wants to keep dancing naked in the marketplace of politics, we can’t but allow him,” Wike added.
The minister reiterated that leadership of a political party is not by name, title or being a founding father. Rather, it is about what one is able to bring to the table in terms of winning elections.
“Even his Unit 001 in Ward E2, Evans Street, Lagos Island, he has never won for the PDP. In the 2019 Presidential election, APC had 84 votes while PDP had 40. In the 2023 elections, he transferred his voter’s card to Eti Osa, PDP had four votes in his polling unit,” Wike said.
