A report by ThisDay indicates that associates of the former vice president and 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, have moved against the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.

According to the report, Atiku’s associates are asking the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to discipline the former governor of Rivers state.

They were said to have been irked by the recent call by Wike for the PDP to expel Atiku from the party.

The Atiku camp further described Wike as a serial betrayer who formed a group of five governors who committed anti-party activities against the PDP during the February 25 presidential election.

Addressing a press conference Monday in Abuja, the Director of Research and Documentation of the PDP Presidential Campaign, Dr. Pedro Obasike said:

“Wike coming out to ask for the expulsion of the number one leader of the party and the presidential flag bearer of the party and the recipient of the mandate of the Nigerian people as declared in INEC’s submission that we won 21 states.

“Wike has crossed the red line, and now, he should be ready. He has all the money to fight us back because we are coming at him like a thousand bricks.

“He has unleashed the dogs of war, and we will not sit back and watch him ride rough over the party and majority of Nigerians as he did for eight years over the humility of the Rivers people. That can no longer suffice”.

He said the coast is clear for Wike to face disciplinary action and possibly expulsion.

“Nyesom Wike has touched the tiger’s tail; let him wait. The only extensional advice I am going to give is that those who have employed his dastardly betrayal and chicanery in the APC should watch their backs. The rain may beat the leopard, but it cannot wash off its spots.

“The spots speckled all over Wike are the spots of disharmony, betrayal, use and dump, messing up people, insults and lack of humility.”, he stressed.

Describing Wike as a betrayal, Obasike said: “It is not hidden knowledge that the only thing Wike is interested in is becoming the president of our country, and anything that seems to stand wittingly or otherwise in his achieving that quest will be flushed away and that is what he has been doing.

“What we are going to see now is that he is fighting to decimate the PDP so that he can also decimate the APC to create a vehicle for himself to run in 2027, but we are not stupid.”