PDP Crisis: Wike’s Faction Takes Over the Party Secretariat

The long-simmering crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) reached a breaking point this week when loyalists of Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, stormed the party’s national headquarters at Wadata Plaza, Abuja. They installed Mohammed Abdulrahman as their own “acting national chairman,” effectively displacing the Damagum-led...