A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, has revealed what he would have done to Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and Atiku Abubakar, the 2023 presidential candidate of the party.

He stated that Wike’s membership should have been frozen after informing the party about his appointment with the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Sowunmi, who was speaking on Nigeria Info FM, revealed that he would not have permitted Wike to accept the appointment or join President Bola Tinubu’s Cabinet.

The former presidential aide added that he would have been extremely hard on Atiku following the remarks by his loyalists that the PDP is dead.

He said, “If I were the National Chairman of PDP and Wike came to tell me that they have invited him to join the APC, I would have frozen his membership and treated him the way universities treat those that go on sabbatical.

“When you are on sabbatical, your membership is frozen, and when you return, it’s activated. By freezing his membership, that means you can’t be in charge of the party’s structure either in Rivers or anywhere. You can’t attend our meetings, and if you return, we are going to give you three months for debriefing so that you can dump all the jargon you learned from them.

“There is no way on earth I would have allowed him to serve in the APC and still sit as a member and an authority in the party. I would not have allowed that as chairman because it would have been wrong.

“I’m not disrespectfully saying this, but that is the proper thing a futurist political party will do.

“If I were the National Chairman, right now I would have been very hard on Atiku by sending him a very clear message—call your dogs to order. You can’t insist that Damagum is in acting capacity and then the party is dead. I won’t allow that.”