FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, said he has no regret blocking former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Deputy national chairman Bode George’s ambition to become the party’s national chairman.
The FCT minister, in a statement on Saturday by his spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, said Mr George’s frustration was compounded by the emergence of Deji Doherty as the party’s Lagos State chapter chairman.
“He wanted to be PDP national chairman, and was carrying on like the position was his birthright. We stopped him because it was the turn of the South-South. Since then, he has not stopped being angry,” Mr Wike stated.
“As a sitting governor, I visited his house in Maitama, Abuja, to appease him after the national convention, his wife attempted to walk me out, but for the intervention of former governor of Ondo state, Olusegun Mimiko,” he said.
The FCT minister, who described Mr George as a “failed politician”, “complete disaster” and a character with “no value”, said the former deputy national chairman had no political value, citing his inability to win elections for the PDP in Lagos State since 1999.
“We have managed him even though we know that he has no value. But as it is, since he wants to keep dancing naked in the market place of politics, we can’t but allow him,” the minister said.
The minister stated that leadership in a political party was determined by what a politician could bring to the table in terms of winning elections rather than by name, title or claiming to be a founding father.
Mr Wike stated, “Even his Unit 001 in Ward E2, Evans Street, Lagos Island, he has never won for the PDP. In 2019 Presidential election, APC had 84 votes while PDP had 40. In the 2023 elections, he transferred his voter’s card to Eti Osa, PDP had four votes in his polling unit.”
The minister accused Mr George of jumping from one television station to another and being without valuable work to occupy his time.