Plot to destroy PDP before 2027’ll fail -Bode George

By Chinelo Obogo

Former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has raised the alarm over what he describes as a coordinated plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Presidency and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to dismantle the opposition party ahead of the 2027 general elections.

In a statement yesterday, he insists that the plan is doomed to fail, saying that the APC, Presidency and Wike are making a big mistake. He said what is going on can be likened to the biblical voice of Jacob and the hand of Esau.

“They think PDP’s approach to normalcy and constitutionalism is stupidity. We are calm, cool and composed because of Nigeria.”

On Wike’s membership status, he stated that the minister was formally expelled from the party at its convention in Ibadan last November and no longer has any standing to speak for the PDP.

“He said he is leading a faction of PDP. Which faction? He is no longer a member of our party. Their expulsion stands as at today. So, it doesn’t make any sense for him to be using Federal Government agents, from Abuja to Rivers, intimidating Nigerians, and claiming to be speaking on behalf of a faction of PDP,” he said.

The former deputy chairman blamed the crisis on the PDP on President Bola Tinubu’s door, accusing him of pulling strings behind the scenes. “You can see the hand of APC and Presidency in every crisis across political parties.They don’t want another party to field a Presidential candidate against Bola Tinubu in 2027. They are wasting their time.

“Some of the characters used in the First Republic to destroy that era, nobody talks about them again  but everybody remembers the cover given to them by Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa. Mr. President, when the shit hits the fan, you will carry your cross alone,” he said.

Raising the alarm over the country’s democratic, George cautioned that the consequences of the ongoing instability could extend far beyond Nigeria’s borders. “If there is any crisis in Nigeria, it will affect the whole of Africa. With a character like Wike, I pray Nigeria does not blow up,” he said.

The elder statesman also dismissed the legitimacy of any national convention held by Wike’s faction, insisting that even the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was aware of the facts but was being overridden by the Presidency.

“Wike and other jesters have no authority to hold any national convention in the name of PDP. This is Tinubu’s administration, not Wike’s administration. No one, I repeat, no one, no matter how influential or power-drunk, should be allowed to undermine the will of Nigerians,” he said.