Turaki-Led PDP Faction Challenges Wike, Dares Him To Seal Office

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under the leadership of Kabiru Turaki has dared the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike to close its operational office in Abuja.

The challenge followed Wike’s earlier in the week monthly media chat where he asked the Turaki-led group to prove its authenticity by operating transparently.

The minister also threatened to close down any building used by the faction for its activities.

The Cable quoted the former PDP Deputy National Publicity Secretary and private principal secretary to Turaki, Ibrahim Abdullahi, as saying the faction already has a temporary office.

“If he can, let Wike take over the office. He knows where it is,” he said.

“We have been running an office,” Abdullahi said. He knows where it is. He ought to go there and take possession of the office, if he can.

“It is an interim office but we are having meetings and doing our functions.

“The crisis that is rocking the PDP is escalating and pushing the country to what I call a Hobbesian state of anarchy where life is brutish, short and nasty,” he warned.

Wike lambasted by Ememobong
The spokesperson of the Turaki faction, Ini Ememobong, however, called Wike’s threat delusional.

He said the PDP maintains party accounts, which the FCT minister was aware of.

Ememobong said: “His delusional claim that he can handle banks that will open accounts for us is delusional, because he already knows that we are running the party’s accounts, which is why his group of friends are receiving money through private accounts.”