
Senator representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Ireti Kingibe, has described the appointment of FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, as President Bola Tinubu’s greatest mistake.
Naija News reports that Kingibe made this known during an interview on ARISE Television.
Criticising President Tinubu for giving Wike such political prominence, despite being a member of the opposition, the Labour Party (LP) lawmaker said, “It’s my personal opinion that that is rather unfortunate, because if I were making a list of all the things that President Tinubu has done wrong, the greatest wrong he’s done to himself, the thing that has demarcated him the most has been on Minister Wike.”
Reacting to Wike’s reported popularity in recent polls, she said, “If truly, Minister Wike is as popular as… You’re talking about that poll, depending on who conducted the poll and how it was conducted. I’m not knocking it, but I am saying, local government elections are coming in a few months.”
She continued, “When we come to any kind of election, can he tell the people, go and do this and they do it? If he can’t, then it means that all that any minister has been doing is blustering and carrying on and just making noise.”
Kingibe further accused the minister of repurposing land meant for a general hospital. “In Bwari, there’s land allocated for a general hospital. Minister Wike revokes it and he’s having some sort of a market or mall or something put on it. Minister Wike has been harassing all of FCT over ground rent… including embassies.”
Speaking on how she planned to take documents she claimed proved Wike’s misuse of authority, Kingibe added, “Oh, I’m going to take those documents and go to the body, the equivalent of his state assembly, and insist that that assembly, the president from whom Wike derives his powers, goes back to the National Assembly for approval for everything.
“Wike, who is deriving powers from him, does not go to the National Assembly for anything except budget. TSA, all his IGR, what has he done with it? He’s never accounted for anything.”
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