Anti-Party: Lamido wants PDP to sack Wike, Ortom, others

Former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, has called for the immediate expulsion of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike; former Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom; and former Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, over alleged anti-party activities during the 2023 general elections.

Speaking on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme on Friday, Lamido said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) must show leadership by punishing members who openly worked against its interest.

“All those erring members, the Wikes, the Ortoms, the Ikpeazus and others, who openly campaigned against the PDP in the 2023 elections, and who say that they are going to work for APC in 2027, should be sacked from the party,” he declared.

Lamido expressed frustration over what he described as a culture of impunity within the PDP, saying it has gone unchecked for too long.

“From way back after the primaries of 2022 leading to the elections of 2023, there are people who, because of their own interest and ambition, felt aggrieved about what transpired in the party’s convention and what they felt was not being able to address their interests as individuals at the elections.

“And they turned out against the party and fought the party. We’ve been having this kind of problem, the impunity of people castrating the party and denouncing it,” he said.

The former governor lamented the party’s failure to uphold its own constitution, adding that there has been no consequence for those who flouted internal rules.

“In the constitution, if you breach the party’s code, you are sanctioned. But somehow, going into a ditch, the party executives are now alive to their responsibilities,” he added.

Lamido also announced that he would boycott meetings of the party’s Board of Trustees (BOT) until disciplinary action is taken against those he accused of working against the PDP.