Wike to PDP: I am untouchable, nobody can expel me

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) minister Nyesom Wike has hit back at his political critics, particularly those seeking his expulsion from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying he has not seen anyone who will nullify his membership.

The minister made the declaration on Monday in Abuja during a media parley.

He said, “I am still in PDP. I worked hard for the party. I have not seen anybody who will have the guts to tell me, Wike, you are not a member of the party. Who is that? What is his contribution to the party that is more than me?” he queried.

Wike also countered former deputy national chairman of the PDP, Chief Bode George on the claim that the party made him. According to Wike, he made the PDP.

He said: “The party cannot make you; you are the one who will make the party popular to win the election. I agree that the PDP made me. Ask Bode George, who did the PDP made in Lagos, if it is the party that makes people. Whom in Lagos has the party made since 1999?”

On the sealing of the PDP National Secretariat over owing of ground rent, Wike explained: “It’s clearly stated on the Certificate of Occupancy (C-of-O) that landowners will pay ground rent annually. Some of these elites who own properties in the FCT also own properties abroad and respect the laws of those countries. The PDP, for over 20 years, hasn’t paid ground rent. Meanwhile, nobody pays more than N400,000 annually as ground rent.”