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Wike, Ortom, others working against PDP should be expelled:Sule Lamido

The former governor condemned what he described as impunity in the opposition party.

• August 9, 2025
Sule Lamido
Sule Lamido

Former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, has canvassed expulsion of members of the Peoples Democratic Party mobilising support for the ruling All Progressives Congress ahead of 2027 elections

Mr Lamido, who spoke on a Channel TV interview on Friday, said FCT minister Nyesom Wike, a former Benue State governor Samuel Ortom, a former Abia State governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, and others who publicly worked against the opposition party in the 2023 elections should be sacked.

“All those erring members, the Wikes, the Ortoms, the Ikpeazus and others, who openly campaigned against the PDP in the 2023 elections, and who say that they are going to work for the APC in 2027, should be sacked from the party,” the politician stated.

The former governor condemned what he described as impunity in the opposition party, charging the PDP leadership to enforce stricter sanctions on erring and disloyal members.

The PDP chieftain noted, “From way back after the primaries of 2022 leading to the elections of 2023, there are people who, because of their interest and ambition, felt aggrieved about what transpired in the party’s convention. And they turned out against the party and fought the party. We’ve been having this kind of problem, the impunity of people castrating the party and denouncing it. In the constitution, if you breach the party’s code, you are sanctioned. But somehow, going into a ditch, the party executives are now alive to their responsibilities.”

Mr Lamido’s suggestion followed the warning by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party that members endorsing President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in 2027 would be sanctioned.

The NWC condemned the steps taken by errant members, noting they were at variance with the provisions of the party’s constitution.

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