Ireti Kingibe, senator representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), says Nyesom Wike, the FCT minister, is not willing to work with her for the governance of the country’s capital.
Speaking during an interview on Channels Television on
Friday, Kingibe said she has written several letters to Wike expressing her
desire to collaborate for the benefit of the FCT.
Kingibe said the minister did not consult with anybody
before imposing a curfew for Saturday’s area council elections in the FCT.
The senator narrated how she once got into a yelling duel
with the minister after repeatedly trying to reach him via the telephone.
Kingibe said it took the intervention of Senate President
Godswill Akpabio, through a three-way telephone call, before there was a
resolution.
“The truth is that this whole curfew is a great
inconvenience to the people of the FCT,” she said.
“I have his(Wike) phone number. I have called him before. He
did not answer, and I kept calling till he picked up the phone. He proceeded to
yell at me.
“We yelled at each other for a few minutes, and we put the
phone down. Then the senate president intervened, did a three-way call, and we
resolved the issue.
“Because for me, that issue was urgent. I was determined
that he was going to respond to my call. I told him I was going to come and see
him in the office. He said, ‘no, don’t come’. That was the conversation, as if
I was going to harm him.
“I am only about governance. We can see the letters I have
written to the minister. All of the letters telling him I’m willing to work
with him.
“The minister is not willing to work with anybody. He is not
willing to work with the FCDA people. The minister thinks governance is about
what he alone thinks and what he alone wants.”
Kingibe and the minister have been at loggerheads since the
2023 elections, often resorting to a media war of words.
In July 2025, Kingibe said President Bola Tinubu’s greatest
political blunder was appointing Wike as minister.
The senator had said Wike’s leadership style is autocratic
and marked by “total disregard for the constitution”.
In turn, Wike has pledged to ensure that the senator loses
her re-election bid in 2027.
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