Nigeria, Dec. 2 -- The Peoples Democratic Party's National Working Committee has issued expulsion certificates to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and others expelled at the party's last national convention in Ibadan, Oyo State.

According to a statement posted on PDP's X handle after the ceremony, the certificates were issued at a meeting of the NWC on Tuesday in Abuja, where the Acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, formally transferred national leadership to Senator Kabiru Turaki.

It would be recalled that PDP had, at the November 16 convention, ratified Wike's and others' expulsion over alleged anti-party activities.

Turaki, the new party national chairman, while addressing newsmen after the NWC meeting,...