Lere Olayinka, Senior Particular Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike has debunked allegations of anti-party actions leveled towards the Minister by some members of the Peoples Democratic Occasion, PDP.
DAILY POST experiences that Wike’s alleged romance with the All Progressives Congress, APC, since his recruitment into President Bola Tinubu’s cupboard has been elevating considerations amongst some PDP members.
On completely different events, some stakeholders of the primary opposition occasion had accused APC of fueling the management disaster rocking the primary opposition occasion.
Recall that Segun Sowunmi, a PDP chieftain and former spokesman of the occasion’s presidential candidate within the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar in November 2024 claimed that President Tinubu was accountable for PDP’s inside wranglings.
In response to Sowunmi, Tinubu has no enterprise appointing Wike as Minister of FCT, with out consulting with the elders of the occasion.
“When Obasanjo needed to type a authorities of nationwide unity, he wrote to the elders of the occasion however what did Tinubu do, he took one among us and put him in a strategic place and immediately the entire thing is sophisticated.
“If he needs the whole lot to be okay, sack Wike and return him again to PDP and see if the occasion won’t have stamina and transfer quick”, he stated.
Equally, a bunch of opposition lawmakers led by a member of the Home of Representatives, Ikenga Ugochinyere, on November 25 accused the occasion’s Nationwide Working Committee, NWC of changing PDP to merely an “errand platform for the ruling occasion.”
In response to him, “You might have a nationwide chairman and secretary who in 24 hours are in Nyesom Wike’s bed room, a minister within the APC authorities.
“At a time when Nigeria is going through a severe disaster, our opposition is now within the mattress of the ruling occasion”.
Addressing the matter in an unique interview with DAILY POST on Saturday, Olayinka countered the critics, insisting that Wike isn’t working for APC however solely serving his nation.
In response to him, “Wike isn’t working for APC, Wike is working for Nigeria. He’s working for the federal government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”.
Olayinka lamented that the critics “failed to know that there’s a distinction between the parliamentary system of presidency and the presidential system of presidency”.
The Minister’s spokesperson defined that “it’s only within the parliamentary system of presidency that the formation of the cupboard is restricted to the occasion that controls the bulk within the parliament”.
Countering allegations of anti-party actions towards the FCT Minister, Olayinka stated “what’s anti-party exercise? Somebody that knowledgeable his occasion that he was going to be appointed as minister by the ruling occasion they usually didn’t elevate objections?.
“When it’s time to play politics, we play politics. We had an election final 12 months and one particular person received. That chapter has ended. Proper now, it’s time for governance. President Tinubu noticed the potential within the FCT Minister and gave him an appointment”.
Making reference to the current appointment of Atiku’s former aide, Daniel Bwala as Tinubu’s Particular Adviser on Public Communication and Media, Olayinka stated Wike’s membership of Tinubu’s cupboard makes no distinction.
He stated, “This is identical means he gave folks appointments from different events, even individuals who as soon as insulted him.
“What position did Daniel Bwala play within the final election? He was Atiku’s spokesman. Atiku funded him and he stated a number of detrimental issues towards the president and now he’s a particular adviser to the president. How is that of Wike completely different?”
When requested if Wike would assist a PDP candidate within the 2027 election, Olayinka merely stated, “after we get to the bridge, we are going to cross it.
“At the moment, the occasion doesn’t have a candidate and even an aspirant. That is time for governance and never politics”.
