The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has said that he has no regret stopping former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, from becoming the party’s National Chairman.
“His anger is because we didn’t allow him to be PDP National Chairman, and no regret doing so,” Wike said in a statement on Saturday, issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka.
The FCT Minister said George’s political frustration has further been compounded by the emergence of Deji Doherty, a personality he does not want to see as the one in charge of the party in Lagos State.
”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.
”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 the former Governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko,” the minister said.
He described George as a failed politician, who despite all the privileges and power has not won anything 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,” Wike added.
The Minister reiterated that leadership of a political party is not by name, title or being a founding father. Rather, it is about what you are able to bring to the table in terms of winning elections, and in this regard, Bode George is a complete disaster.
”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,” Wike said.
Wike said since it appeared that he (Bode George) is not busy, he will continue to make his likes busy by creating reason for them to jump from one television station to the other.