2027: If you want to destroy PDP, bring Obi – Wike

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will be destroyed if it brings back former presidential candidate, Peter Obi.

Obi left the party in 2022 to contest the 2023 presidential election on the Labour Party platform.

However, speculations have been hinting at a return of the former governor of Anambra State, which heightened after the PDP zoned its 2027 presidential ticket to the South, from which Obi hails.

Also, some PDP stalwarts have not hidden their desire to see Obi return to the party which fielded him as its vice presidential candidate in 2019.

However, speaking during a media chat on Monday, Wike described the move for Obi’s return to the party as one that would lead the PDP to destruction.

“To what? Bringing Obi to where? You want to kill the party? Obi that was abusing the party, saying it is rotten—so the party is now good enough for him? Ambition can make people even go to Satan’s house,” Wike said.

“If you want to destroy this party, dare it—bring Obi. There’s no way he will come back just because of ambition. No more ideology, no longer principle,” he added.