Wike “Dirty December in November” reaction
Nyesom Wike, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, has strongly rejected his reported expulsion from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), sharply criticizing those behind the move as being “intoxicated” and treating the party’s national convention like a festive social gathering.
Through a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, Wike described the Ibadan convention where delegates voted to expel him and other key figures as nothing more than a “social party.” He said the organizers appeared to have treated the event like a celebration, getting drunk and making pronouncements in the heat of revelry.
The phrase “They went to Ibadan to start their own dirty December in November” was used by Olayinka to mock the convention-goers. Wike’s camp argues that the expulsions and decisions taken at the gathering should be ignored, as they were made under what they call unguarded, intoxicated circumstances.
Wike and his allies also describe the entire setup as a “constitutional farce.” According to them, the convention lacked legitimacy, as important procedural safeguards like the presence of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were allegedly missing.
In summary, Wike is dismissing the expulsion not as a substantive political act, but as a product of what he sees as a drunken jamboree a “Dirty December in November” rather than a genuine, sober deliberation of party affairs.
