BREAKING: Wike Faces Another Setback as PDP Rejects Controversial Calabar Congress Report

Efforts by FCT Minister Nyesom Wike to take over the structure of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have suffered a major setback as the National Secretariat of the party has rejected a report submitted to it from the sham South-South Zonal Congress held in Calabar, Cross River State.

The National Working Committee (NWC) had dismissed the purported congress as a social gathering that had nothing to do with the party.

The said report, dated February 26, 2025, and signed by the suspended National Vice Chairman, South-South, Chief Dan Orbih, was stamped REJECTED by the party’s Directorate of Organisation and Mobilisation in Abuja on February 27, 2025.

The rejection of the report by the National Secretariat invalidates claims by Wike and his loyalists that the party had conducted its South-South Zonal Congress.

Recall that the NWC on Thursday, February 20, 2025, announced the postponement of its South-South Zonal Congress, citing the need for further consultation with stakeholders in the zone.

The PDP, in an official statement on February 22, 2025, emphasized that it had not conducted its South-South Zonal Congress and had yet to communicate a date for the exercise.

“The PDP calls on all party members in the South South Zone, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), S ecurity Agencies, and the Media to disregard any gathering or outcome of any gathering in Calabar, Cross River State, purported to be the South-South Zonal Congress of the PDP.

“Our Party will in due course and through its official channels communicate a new date for the conduct of the South-South Zonal Congress,” the statement read.