Says Party Acted Too Late
Admin I Monday, Nov. 17, 2025
AWKA, Nigeria – Renowned Nigerian human rights lawyer and lead counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has commended the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for expelling the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and others from the party.
In his weekly commentary, MONDAY MUSING: THE LONG-AWAITED SLEDGEHAMMER — PDP, NYESOM WIKE, AND THE ANATOMY OF A MANUFACTURED LANDMINE, Ejiofor questioned why it took the party so long to expel “Wike and his enthusiastic co-travellers political tourists whose commitment to the PDP is as authentic as a fake passport.”
According to him, these individuals, “with calculated precision, planted landmines within the PDP’s leadership structure each one designed to explode at strategic intervals, keeping the party in perpetual crisis, unable to rise, unable to unify, unable to function.”
Ejiofor described what he called the “Wike-and-Co. blueprint” as a deliberate effort to weaken the PDP to the point where it could no longer challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) “even in a local ward election.”
He argued that the tragedy of Nigeria’s political environment is not merely the ruling party’s habitual intolerance for dissenting voices but the availability of “willing saboteurs within the opposition itself,individuals embedded in the very institution constitutionally required to checkmate the government.
Every democracy, he noted, requires a “vibrant, intellectually grounded, fearless opposition,” stressing that the opposition is “the brake system of democracy,the force that compels accountability, interrogates state actions, refines public policy, and draws the moral red lines that prevent governance from slipping into tyranny.”
How is this possible,” Ejiofor asked, “when those entrusted with defending the sanctity of the opposition become co-authors of its destruction?”
Addressing those still advocating “amicable settlement,” “reconciliation,” or “alternative dispute resolution” within the PDP, Ejiofor declared that the reality is unambiguous: “You cannot reconcile with a man whose life ambition is to burn down the house while pretending to fix the roof.”
The statement reads:
MONDAY MUSING:THE LONG-AWAITED SLEDGEHAMMER:PDP, NYESOM WIKE, AND THE ANATOMY OF A MANUFACTURED LANDMINE
For the avoidance of doubt, I am ordinarily not in the habit of dabbling into the internal wranglings of political parties. In the human rights community, we generally allow politicians the freedom to mismanage their internal affairs without our unsolicited intervention. However, there comes a time when silence becomes an accessory to mischief, and the theatre currently unfolding within the PDP demands a few clear, unvarnished words.
It is now public knowledge that the expulsion of Nyesom Wike and other serial contrarians, has finally been effected by the PDP. To many observers, particularly those whose political memories extend beyond last weekend, this decision is not only overdue, but embarrassingly belated. One wonders whether the PDP leadership had been under some mystical injunction preventing them from wielding a sledgehammer that has been resting idly on the table since 2023 after his unsuccessful attempt to cling the party’s Presidential ticket.
We were taught in our earliest civic lessons, those undiluted, pre-distorted teachings, that democracy is government of the people, by the people, and for the people. In its truest sense, this means the governed are not a decorative audience but active participants in political decision-making.
But this cherished arrangement collapses when the opposition is infiltrated, compromised, and systematically hollowed out from within. The tragedy of Nigeria’s political ecosystem is not only the habitual intolerance of the ruling party toward dissenting voices, it is also the availability of willing saboteurs inside the very opposition that is constitutionally required to checkmate the government.
Let us be factual and historical: every democratic system requires a vibrant, intellectually grounded, fearless opposition. Opposition is the brake system of democracy. It forces accountability. It interrogates state actions. It compels policy refinement. And when necessary, it draws a moral red line to prevent governance from dissolving into tyranny.
But how is this possible when those entrusted with defending the sanctity of the opposition become co-authors of its destruction?
Enter the FCT Minister and his enthusiastic co-travellers, political tourists whose commitment to PDP is as authentic as a fake passport. With calculated precision, they planted landmines within the PDP leadership structure, each one designed to explode at strategic intervals, ensuring the party remains in perpetual crisis, unable to rise, unable to unify, unable to function. The blueprint is simple: weaken the PDP to the point where it cannot challenge the APC even in a local ward election.
If this script feels familiar, it is because it has been executed with almost military discipline.
To those who are still sermonizing about “amicable settlement,” “reconciliation,” or “alternative dispute resolution” within the PDP, the reality is painfully clear: you cannot reconcile with a man whose life ambition is to burn down the house while pretending to fix the roof. The crisis will not end, not now, and not in another eight years of President Tinubu’s tenure. Some wounds are not meant to heal; they were inflicted to ensure permanent disablement.
Let us speak plainly:
The actors involved never had the interest of the PDP at heart. Their loyalty begins and ends with their personal political oxygen. The only reason some of them still remain in the Federal Cabinet is not because of competence or value addition, they simply possess a rare talent for political gymnastics that entertains those in power.
The Party had one job many years ago:
Apply the sledgehammer.
Decisively.
Boldly.
Early.
But as is typical in Nigerian politics, the can was kicked down the road, until the road itself began to disappear.
Still, it is better late than never.
The expulsion is not a conclusion. It is merely the first honest step PDP has taken in years to reclaim its dignity, restructure its internal sanity, and send a clear message that political deviance under the guise of party loyalty will no longer be accommodated.
History will record this moment not as an act of vengeance, but as an overdue correction of an existential injustice.
