The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has said he has no regrets over blocking former Peoples Democratic Party Deputy National Chairman, Chief Bode George, from emerging as the party’s National Chairman.
Wike described George as a failed politician who has not delivered any electoral victory for the PDP in Lagos State since 1999.
The minister spoke in a statement issued Saturday by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka.
Wike said George’s frustration has deepened following the emergence of Deji Doherty, a figure he opposes leading the party in Lagos State.
“His anger is because we didn’t allow him to be PDP National Chairman and no regret doing so,” Wike said.
He said George “wanted to be PDP National Chairman, and was carrying on like the position was his birthright. We stopped him because it was the turn of the South-South. Since then, he has not stopped being angry.”
The minister recalled visiting George’s residence in Maitama, Abuja, as a sitting governor to appease him after the national convention, adding that he was nearly turned away by George’s wife until former Ondo State governor, Olusegun Mimiko, intervened.
Wike said George, despite the privileges and power available to him, has failed to deliver electoral victories for the PDP in Lagos State.
“We have managed him even though we know that he has no value. But as it is, since he wants to keep dancing naked in the market place of politics, we can’t but allow him,” he said.
Wike argued that party leadership should be determined by the ability to win elections, not by title or status as a founding father. On that score, he said, George is “a complete disaster.”
Citing electoral figures, Wike said George has never won his own polling unit — Unit 001, Ward E2, Evans Street, Lagos Island — for the PDP.
He noted that in the 2019 presidential election, the All Progressives Congress polled 84 votes at the unit against the PDP’s 40. In 2023, after George transferred his voter’s card to Eti-Osa, the PDP recorded only four votes at his former polling unit.
Wike said that since George appeared to have little else to occupy him, he would continue giving him reason to move from one television station to another.
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