The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has challenged any governor or leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to publicly accuse him of being a mole.
In an interview on Channels Television’s political program, Politics Today, in Abuja on Friday.
Wike stated, “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 mole? Name names.”
He continued, “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 anybody in PDP, I dare any governor, I dare any National Working Committee member to come on national television to say I’m a mole.”
Wike emphasized that his opposition to the PDP’s presidential candidate in 2023 was not hidden. “Did I not say I won’t support 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, the National Assembly, and the state assembly? I challenge any of them in any of these (PDP) states who won 100 percent as we have. How did we do it? Leadership!”
The FCT minister described himself as a man who stands by his word. He also revealed that Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, had approached him seeking support for his preferred successor, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, but Wike refused, stating that his previous support for Obaseki earned him “nothing but unending insults.”
While acknowledging that the Edo State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) is his first cousin, Wike declared, “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 pointed out that the Edo REC had been posted to the state over a year ago, questioning why the issue was being raised by PDP members now.
Wike also expressed his unwillingness to forgive Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara for attempting to destroy the political family that brought him to power.
