Wike And Fayose Have Been Issued Certificates Of Expulsion – PDP

Nyesom Wike and Ayo Fayose

The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has issued expulsion certificates to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. It also expelled other party members who were kicked out of the party’s last national convention in Ibadan, Oyo State.

In a press statement shared on PDP’s X handle after the ceremony, the party confirmed that the certificates were issued at a meeting of the NWC on Tuesday in Abuja, where the Acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, formally transferred national leadership to Senator Kabiru Turaki.

Speaking to journalists after the NWC meeting, Turaki disclosed that the committee reviewed matters relating to members expelled by the convention.

According to him, because the Nigerian law is completely against dual membership of political parties, the PDP decided to make it easy for expelled members.

He stated that after their expulsion during the party’s National Convention, certificates had to be issued to make it official.

“We have taken note of the fact that Nigerian law frowns on dual membership of political parties, and so we have sought to make it easy for them.

Now that they are no longer members of our party, and now that the National Convention, which is the highest decision-making organ of our party, has expelled them, we have decided to issue them certificates of expulsion.

So that, when they go to register with other political parties in Nigeria, they will show these certificates as proof that they are no longer members of the PDP, and so those parties will not accuse them of trying to belong to more than one political party,” he said.

He further noted that the certificates have been dispatched by courier to the individuals: Nyesom Wike, former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose; Senator Samuel Anyanwu; Umaru Bature; Kamarudeen Ajibade (SAN); Abdurahman Muhammad; Senator Mao Ohuabunwa; Austin Nwachukwu; Abraham Amah Nnanna; George Turna; and Chief Dan Orbih.

Turaki concluded by saying that the step was necessary to inform Nigerians and relevant institutions about the latest development.

“The Nigeria Police, the Department of State Services, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and other government agencies should know that these people are no longer members of our party. They have been expelled. They remain expelled. We have now certified their expulsion, and these certificates have been sent to them.

We hope that members of the PDP in Nigeria and the diaspora will know that the party has once again gotten rid of the cankerworms that have been afflicting and creating problems for us in our activities,” he added.