We Won’t Bow To You, PDP Governors Tell Wike

Posted by Nwa Diokpa Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum has stated that its November nationalist normal volition spell arsenic planned.

The governors were reacting to the demands issued by the Eminent Leaders and Concerned Stakeholders, a radical successful the PDP chaired by Nyesom Wike, curate of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

It is worthy recalling that the radical had fixed immoderate conditions for supporting the planned convention, and it included the behaviour of caller congresses successful Ebonyi and Anambra states.

The radical besides tasked the PDP to recognise the South-South Congress held successful Calabar, Cross River State.

Speaking connected behalf of his colleagues astatine the inauguration of the nationalist normal readying committee connected Tuesday successful Abuja, Bala Mohammed, politician of Bauchi and president of the forum, stated that they are “not cowards”.

“We are not acrophobic of anybody. We are susceptible of navigating this enactment beyond the shenanigans, arrogance, and impunity of others,” helium said.

“We cannot proceed to instrumentality portion and let radical to instrumentality america to the slaughterhouse. That’s our job. And our occupation is to marque definite we don’t spell to the slaughterhouse.

“And we are moving arsenic governors and moving with the committee to guarantee that. The keyword is discipline. We volition nary longer let oregon tolerate anyone taking america for granted. It has to stop.

“Enough is enough. We are not going to tolerate it immoderate longer.”

Mohammed assured Umar Damagum, the PDP nationalist chairman, of his assistance successful starring the enactment until the extremity of his tenure successful November.

“And definitely, Mr chairman, we are with you connected this travel arsenic governors. And we volition amusement that we judge successful the capableness of the regulator, INEC. We are assured that it is simply a precise valid and credible organisation, driven by the regularisation of law,” helium said.

“This normal is connected course. Our enactment is connected people to marque definite we person our party. If anybody wants to go a faction of fools, we volition let him to spell and bash it.”

Damagum stated that since helium came into office, helium has worked with sincerity and utmost committedness to marque things dependable successful the party.

“But fto maine beryllium clear; this occurrence has lone been made imaginable by soundlessness and tolerance connected my part. Not due to the fact that I bask being disparaged, but due to the fact that astatine captious moments, I chose restraint, not retired of weakness, but arsenic a conscious sacrifice for the endurance and stableness of our party,” Damagum said.

“Ironically, galore of the destructive voices person travel from individuals who person benefited immensely from the PDP. They sought to sow part and weaken our structures.

“Yet past volition record, and analysts volition debate, but the statement volition stay that successful a clip of large difficulty, this nationalist moving committee, un...