Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike has again told FCT Senator Ireti Kingibe that she will not return to the National Assembly in 2027.
Wike made the remarks on Tuesday while responding to questions from journalists during an inspection of ongoing road projects in the FCT.
He was reacting to Kingibe’s accusation that he took loans without approval.The minister described the senator as an “illiterate” and insisted that all loans taken by the FCT Administration followed due process and received National Assembly approval.
“She is an illiterate, with all due respect, and that is why she is not going back to the Senate. She has nothing to offer to the people of the FCT. There is no way you can go and take a loan without the approval of the National Assembly. Anyone take a loan, you will include it in the budget that this aspect of this budget, the government is going to collect loan,” Wike said.
He said he would not dignify her comments further, describing her as already on her way out of political relevance. According to him, FCT residents have chosen to support President Bola Tinubu and his preferred candidate for the FCT senatorial seat, Philip Aduda.
“I don’t want to comment about her. When the time is right, let her pack her bags out, the people have made their choice by agreeing to support President Tinubu, and then will support Philip Aduda for Senate. So, let us not waste our time reacting to inferiors who failed in all ramifications. I don’t want to react to it, I am above that,” he added.
Wike argued that the more relevant question should have been whether the loans were being applied to development, rather than the fact that a loan was taken.
“I thought she would criticise that I am doing nothing. So if her problem is that I took a loan, if I took a loan, I am using it to work. I thought her concern would have been: are we applying the loan to work for the interest of residents? She believes that we can’t run infrastructure without loans, and that we must have taken a loan, that is her problem,” he said.
He dismissed the timing of the criticism as politically motivated, linking it to the recent lifting of the ban on campaigns for the presidential and National Assembly elections.
Wike pointed to his ongoing project inspections as proof of performance.
“When is the time to campaign? Look at what we are doing. That is the campaign. The ban on campaign has been lifted for the President and National Assembly, am I not right? As I finish now, then she know what we are doing, and they are seeing every road, and tell everyone that this is what President Tinubu is doing.
"Who will see what Mr President is doing and will say that he will vote for another person? That is not correct. So, I am doing my job. While we are doing an inspection of the project, we are also doing a campaign,” he stated.
On the projects inspected, Wike said he was impressed with progress across the sites visited, including the N1 road and stretches covering Tunga Madaki down to Zuba and Kagini.
He said the completed projects would have a direct economic impact on residents of the affected rural communities, adding that the happiness of the people remained the essence of governance.
Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
Advertise on NigerianEye.com to reach thousands of our daily users
No comments
Post a Comment
Kindly drop a comment below.
(Comments are moderated. Clean comments will be approved immediately)
Advert Enquires - Reach out to us at NigerianEye@gmail.com