The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has issued expulsion certificates to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and others who were expelled at the party’s last national convention in Ibadan, Oyo State.

According to a statement posted on PDP’s X handle, the certificates were issued at a meeting of the NWC on Tuesday in Abuja.

According to the party, the Acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, at the meeting, formally transferred national leadership to Senator Kabiru Turaki.

Recall that, at the November 16 convention, PDP ratified Wike’s and others’ expulsion over alleged anti-party activities.

Addressing journalists after the meeting, Turaki said; “We have taken note of the fact that Nigerian law frowns on dual membership of political parties, and so we have sought to make it easy for them.

“Now that they are no longer members of our party, and now that the National Convention, which is the highest decision-making organ of our party, has expelled them, we have decided to issue them certificates of expulsion.

“So that, when they go to register with other political parties in Nigeria, they will show these certificates as proof that they are no longer members of the PDP, and so those parties will not accuse them of trying to belong to more than one political party.”

He further explained that the certificates have been dispatched by courier to the individuals: Nyesom Wike, former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose; Senator Samuel Anyanwu; Umaru Bature; Kamarudeen Ajibade (SAN); Abdurahman Muhammad; Senator Mao Ohuabunwa; Austin Nwachukwu; Abraham Amah Nnanna; George Turna; and Chief Dan Orbih.

Turaki noted that the step was necessary to inform Nigerians and relevant institutions, including INEC and security agencies, of the affected individuals were no longer part of them.

He said the Nigeria Police, the Department of State Services, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and other government agencies should “know that these people are no longer members of our party. They have been expelled. They remain expelled. We have now certified their expulsion, and these certificates have been sent to them.”

He added that the party would soon declare that anyone dealing with the expelled individuals “does so at his or her own risk,” adding that the PDP is now focused on rebuilding and preparing to offer Nigerians “credible leadership” ahead of 2027.

“We hope that members of the PDP in Nigeria and the diaspora will know that the party has once again gotten rid of the cankerworms that have been afflicting and creating problems for us in our activities,” he said.