Veteran journalist and former presidential aide, Dr. Reuben Abati, has accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, of undermining President Bola Tinubu and exposing him to public ridicule over his political actions in Rivers State.
Talking on Come up Tv’s Morning Present on Thursday, Abati faulted Wike’s declare of main a “rainbow coalition” in Rivers State, saying the FCT minister lacks the authority to intrude within the affairs of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
He famous that the APC management, together with the social gathering’s Nationwide Chairman, Nentawe Yilwatda, and the Nationwide Secretary, Ajibola Basiru, had publicly said that Wike has no enterprise meddling within the social gathering’s inner issues, as he’s not a member of the APC.
Abati additional identified that the Peoples Democratic Get together, PDP, Wike’s former social gathering, has additionally repeatedly disowned him, insisting that he’s not its member.
The previous presidential aide additionally criticised Wike for allegedly abandoning his duties as FCT minister to have interaction in political actions in Rivers State, together with what he described as untimely campaigns for President Tinubu.
Abati mentioned: “Now first, let’s take care of Wike who says he’s having a rainbow coalition that’s going to shut out all people within the Rivers State, and it appears to me that he doesn’t have that proper.
“Actually, the director of data of the APC, as well as to the chairman of the social gathering, Nentawe Yilwatda, and the spokesperson of the social gathering, Ajibola Basiru, have kind of mentioned that Wike is a busy physique who has no enterprise interfering within the affairs of the All Progressives Congress, the ruling social gathering, as a result of so far as they’re involved, he’s a member of the Individuals’s Democratic Get together.
“The identical folks’s Democracy Get together has rejected him, saying that he’s not their member, they usually’ve repeated it repeatedly. However much more elementary points as follows, you may have a minister of the Federal Capital Territory who has deserted his obligation put up, and he’s in Rivers state, taking part in politics, door to door, home to home, and says he’s campaigning for president.
“The social gathering itself says they haven’t despatched him on any message. It appears to me the FCT minister is undermining President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and exposing him for contempt of the Nigerian folks.
“The Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee has not even blown the whistle as regards political campaigns. He’s busy in Rivers state conducting campaigns.
“And so what’s INEC supposed to do on this specific regard? So while you speak about Rivers state, it seems like an act of self-discipline on the a part of the FCT minister. It seems like an act of irresponsibility on the a part of the FCT minister.
“What Nyesom Wike is doing in Rivers state could be very ridiculous. And I feel that the embarrassment to the president of Nigeria doesn’t quantity to assist. It quantities to, you recognize, attempting to upstage the President of Nigeria, and subsequently we aren’t stunned that principal members of the all progressive Congress have complained.”
