Influential PDP chieftain reveals how Tinubu, Wike fuelled party's crisis, trending interview emerges

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has over two years of experience covering political parties and movements.

On Wednesday, November 20, Segun Sowunmi, a top chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is his party’s main problem.

Sowunmi blames Tinubu and Wike for the PDP crisis. Photo credit: Dr. Segun Sowunmi, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike - CON, GSSRS
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Sowunmi, former Ogun PDP governorship candidate, made this assertion on Channels Television’s Politics Today.

In the trending interview clip, Sowunmi also faulted the appointment of former Rivers state governor Nyesom Wike as minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

According to him, Tinubu had no business selecting Wike as a member of his cabinet.

“People will like to say Wike but I will rather say President Bola Tinubu,” he said when asked what the PDP’s main problem is.“He has no business appointing our member into his cabinet without talking to us. He had no business taking Nyesom Wike from our party and appointing him.”

Sowunmi stated that when former President Olusegun Obasanjo wanted to form a government of national unity, he consulted the elders of the party.

He explained that if Tinubu wanted the PDP to be okay, he would return Wike back to the opposition party.

Watch Sowunmi's interview below:

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In a related development, Legit.ng reported that Ovation Magazine publisher Dele Momodu voiced concerns about the crisis rocking the PDP and how Nyesom Wike contributed to it.

In a trending interview, Momodu claimed Wike is yet to recover from his defeat in the 2022 PDP presidential primary.

He added that Atiku Abubakar's victory in the PDP primaries, with 371 votes, left Wike really disappointed, contributing to the party's defeat in the 2023 presidential election.

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