The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has issued formal expulsion certificates to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and several other members expelled at the party’s last national convention in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The certificates were issued on Tuesday, December 2, during an NWC meeting in Abuja, where Acting National Chairman Umar Damagum officially transferred national leadership to Senator Kabiru Turaki. The development was confirmed in a statement posted on the PDP’s X handle shortly after the ceremony.
The party had ratified the expulsion of Wike and others on November 16 following allegations of anti-party activities.
Speaking to journalists after the NWC meeting, Turaki said the committee undertook a review of issues concerning the expelled members. He explained the rationale behind issuing the certificates, saying, “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.”
Turaki added, “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.”
0 Comments