The knives are out in the People’s Democratic Party as FCT Minister Nyesom Wike unleashed a blistering takedown on Bauchi Governor Bala Mohammed, branding him a “shame” to the party and predicting his swift exit amid a factional bloodbath that’s tearing the opposition apart.
Speaking at a fiery meeting of his PDP faction in Abuja on Sunday, December 7, 2025, Wike didn’t hold back. “Bala Mohammed should be ashamed,” he thundered, pointing to the governor’s failed tenure as PDP Governors’ Forum chairman, during which several big names defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
“You lost governors left and right under your watch,” Wike sneered, contrasting it with his own Rivers State days when the party swelled with new blood. “When I was governor, more people—including governors—came into the PDP. But under Bala? It’s a graveyard.”
The barbs flew thicker as Wike turned on the rival bloc led by Bala and Oyo’s Seyi Makinde—both already “expelled” by Wike’s camp last week for alleged anti-party antics. “They’re on their way out of the PDP,” Wike declared, dismissing their recent Ibadan convention as a “parallel farce” that flouted court orders and party rules.
“I joined the PDP in 1998. Bala slunk in after the 2010 doctrine of necessity. Makinde jumped ship from the SDP,” Wike scoffed. “We won’t let those we welcomed kill the party they met thriving. They met us here—and now they want to push us out? No chance. They’re the ones packing their bags.”
The gathering—packed with Wike loyalists like Acting National Chairman Abdulrahman Mohammed, National Secretary Samuel Anyanwu, and BoT heavyweights including ex-governors Okezie Ikpeazu and Samuel Ortom—doubled down on the purge. They reaffirmed the expulsion of 18 “impostors,” including Bala, Makinde, Zamfara’s Dauda Lawal, and ex-chair Umar Damagum, vowing a caretaker committee takeover by Tuesday to “save the PDP from collapse.”
Bala’s camp fired back earlier, accusing Wike of “gangsterism and illegalism” and insisting their leadership is INEC-recognized.<grok:render card_id=”6b4033″ card_type=”citation_card” type=”render_inline_citation”>
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</grok:render> But with the party secretariat a no-man’s-land of rival claims—complete with police standoffs and heated clashes—analysts see a death spiral ahead of 2027.
“This isn’t a crisis; it’s a coup within a coup,” one PDP insider lamented. “Wike’s playing hardball from his APC perch, but if he guts the opposition, who does he fight?”
For now, the PDP’s founding vow—”Power to the people”—rings hollow. As Wike wrapped up: “We must not allow the PDP to die.” Too late? The party’s bleeding governors, credibility, and any shot at unity. In Nigerian politics, shame might be the least of their worries.
