Many PDP leaders will join me, says Wike on defecting to APC



Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), dismissed any possibility of dumping the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Wike, however, disclosed that a lot of PDP leaders will join him if he decides to defect to the APC.

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The Minister, who spoke during his media chat in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, said: “Today, if I say that I want to go to APC, that will be the end of even talking about it.

“You will see other states joining, leaders in other states joining, I’m not a leader that’s concentrated in the state. No.

“If today I say gentlemen, we have had enough of PDP, we have to move, watch those who will decamp in Benue, Plateau, Abia, Edo.”

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The Minister also declared that he is still a member of the PDP, hence Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State is unhappy.

“I’m a member of the PDP, that’s why I’m still there, and Seyi is not happy. That’s not correct, that you are a member of the assembly or council, Chairman or National Assembly does not mean that there is no other person,” he added.

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