PDP Fires Wike, Fayose, 9 Others—“Enough of the Sabotage!”
By: Abudu Olalekan
The hall in Ibadan was hot, noisy, the kind of heat that makes your shirt stick to your back in five minutes. Delegates fanned themselves with whatever they could grab. Then Chief Bode George stood up. Old man, straight back, voice like gravel. He didn’t shout. He didn’t need to.
“I move that we throw them out. All of them.”
And just like that, the PDP finally did what everyone had been whispering about for months. Nyesom Wike – yes, that Wike – gone. Ayo Fayose, the loud one from Ekiti, gone. Senator Samuel Anyanwu, George Turner, Dan Orbih, the whole crew. Eleven names in total. Expelled. Finished. No more PDP membership card for you fellas.
They even dissolved the whole state executive in five states: Rivers, Abia, Imo, Plateau, Enugu. Wipe the slate clean. Start again.
You could almost hear the collective gasp, then the cheering started. Some people clapped so hard their palms turned red. Others just sat there, mouth open, like say dem dey watch Nollywood.
Bode George no dey play. He listed the sins one by one – campaigning for APC in the last election, running parallel congresses, dragging the party to court left and right, even trying to stop the national convention with some funny lawsuit. He read the sections of the constitution like a headmaster reading report card. Section this, article that. When he finished, Pharmacist Samaila Adamu Burga just stood up and said “I second the motion.” Boom. Done.
Governor Seyi Makinde was the one who moved to dissolve those five state executives. Man looked tired but relieved, like someone who just finished carrying heavy load from Lagos to Ibadan on his head.
Acting Chairman Umar Damagum tried to smile for the cameras. BOT Chairman Adolphus Wabara said if he died today he would die happy. Dramatic much? Well, that’s PDP for you.
Governor Dauda Lawal from Zamfara kept saying “we are united now, we are one.” Senator Abdul Ningi from Bauchi nearly started singing, shouting that anybody thinking PDP is dead should come and see the crowd. Honourable Fred Agbedi promised the Reps caucus will stand gidigba with the party, no more fifth columnists, no more saboteurs.
But let’s be honest. This thing pain pass small.
Wike built half of Port Harcourt with mouth and muscle. Fayose na street fighter wey no dey fear anybody. Throwing them out feels like tearing out a chunk of the party’s own body. Some delegates were shaking their heads. One woman near me was muttering “this one go scatter everything finish.”
Yet the mood was strange, almost happy-sad. Like when your troublesome uncle finally overdoes it at the family meeting and they chase him out, and everybody feels bad but also relieved.
Outside the Lekan Salami Sports Complex, the sun was going down slow, turning the sky orange. Hawkers were already shouting “pure water! cold one!” while delegates posed for selfies, some smiling, some looking like they just lost a bet.
Will this save PDP? Nobody knows. 2027 is still far, but today felt like something shifted. The party drew a line in the sand and said “enough.” Whether that line holds or gets washed away by the next rain, only time go tell.
For now, eleven big men woke up this morning as PDP members. By evening, dem no be again. Politics na brutal game, my people.
