Having practically lost grip of both the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressive Congress (APC), Federal Capital Territory,( FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, is said to be exploring the option of pitching his tent with the Social Democratic Party, (SDP).
The minister, in his recent media chat, had described APC as a threat to his political influence in Rivers State.
The minister’s recent attempt to float an imaginary coalition of political parties referred to as a Rainbow Coalition, apparently targeted at diminishing the status of Governor Siminalayi Fubara as the political leader of the state, might have collapsed, hence the new plot with the SDP.
It was gathered that the minister has asked his loyalists to use the SDP platform to contest in the forthcoming February 21 House of Assembly bye-elections in Ahoada East and Khana Constituencies.
Wike and his allies in the PDP were expelled from the party at the party’s national convention in Ibadan in November 2025.
A Federal High Court in Abuja further made matters worse for Wike and his allies when the court ruled that the tenure of Senator Samuel Anyawu as the National Secretary of PDP had elapsed.
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The court thereafter dismissed the suit filed by Anyawu, in which he sought to remain as Secretary of the party even after his formal expulsion from the party.
Since the minister lost the presidential ticket of PDP in the 2023 general election, he practically declared ‘war’ against the party, aligning with the opposition APC against the party.
The minister has been involved in a series of legal disputes against the PDP. His ministerial appointment is said to be a reward for supporting the APC against his own party, the PDP, during the presidential election.
As part of the minister’s strategy to remain politically relevant, he had plotted a system where he would be in charge of both the PDP and APC in Rivers State.
However, the defection of Governor Siminalayi Fubara from the PDP to the APC altered all permutations and left the minister utterly frustrated as the governor automatically became the leader of the APC in the state.
Having already ‘burnt’down his house in PDP, and having no foothold in APC, the minister who had confessed that politics is all he could do for a living needed a new platform for his meal ticket; the SDP thus became the new bride.
It remains to be seen how the embattled minister and his followers in the state would fare in the SDP and how the presidency would react to the Minister’s latest move having already declared that APC is a threat to his influence in the state.
