The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has dared any governor of leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to come on national television and call him a mole.
He said this in an interview on a Channels Television Political Programme, Politics Today, in Abuja, late on Friday.
The FCT minister said, “Before I accepted my appointment as Minister, I wrote a letter to the PDP in my state, I wrote a letter to the PDP in my zone; I wrote a letter to the PDP national, who in PDP is saying I’m a mile, name names.
“The problem we have in this country is that some people think they’re smart. What I want to do I will do, what I don’t want to do I will not do.
“I dare any body in PDP, I dare any governor, I dare any National Working Committee member to come on national television to say I’m a mole.
“In 2023, did I not say I won’t suppot the PDP (Presidential) candidate because it is against equity, it is against fairness? Did I do it at the back?
“Did the PDP not win the governorship? Did the PDP not win the National Assembly? Did PDP not win the state assembly? I challenge any of them in any of this (PDP) states who won 100 percent as we have. How did we do it? Leadership!”
He described himself as a man of his words. He revealed that Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, approached him to seek support for his preferred successor, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, but he told him to his face he would not because his support for Obaseki in the past earned him nothing but unending insults.
While admitting that the Edo State Resident Electoral Commissioner, is his first cousin, Wike said, just like him, “Nobody can intimidate my cousin, not even the INEC Chairman. Nobody born of a woman can intimidate my cousin into doing what is not right.”
He noted that the Edo REC was posted to the state over one year ago, he wondered why those claiming to be the PDP at all levels were raising the issue now.
The former Rivers State Governor also said the decision of Governor Similaye Fubara to destroy the political family which brought him to power was an offence he was unwilling to forgive.
“I will never support Fubara again in my political life. I won’t do that. Everyone knows me,” he said.
Wike said he laboured and sacrificed for Fubara to become Rivers governor in 2023.
He added that the governor could not have won the election in the state without his support.
The FCT minister accused Fubara of telling lies against him after he was elected as governor.
“I will never support Fubara again in my political life. I won’t do that. Everyone knows me,” Wike said.
“That is why people should know me. I’m not a man who does things with my left hand. Everybody knows that.
“People laboured to put up a structure. You won’t have even taken the fifth position. People laboured and sacrificed. I sacrificed to talk to the Ogoni people.
“I sacrificed to talk to several people. Let us go this way (support Fubara). You turned it into that I’m asking for N20 billion, and N100 billion. You told lies against me. I brought you up, put you here and there.”
Over the past few months, Rivers has been engulfed in a political crisis due to the rift between Fubara and Wike.
Due to the rift, the state house assembly is polarised into two factions.
The faction led by Martin Amaewhule with 27 members is loyal to Wike, while Victor Jumbo’s faction is loyal to Fubara.
The two factions are in court to determine the authentic house of assembly.
Fubara recognises the Jumbo-led faction, and the state government interacts with the group, which has three lawmakers, for legislative approvals.
