Leaders of the All Progressives Congress within the Federal Capital Territory on Monday protested the current appointments by the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, saying he’s obsessive about involving Peoples Democratic Occasion loyalists on the expense of their members.
The FCT social gathering leaders, who expressed their frustration throughout a media speak on the Secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalists in Abuja, known as on President Bola Tinubu to warn the previous governor of Rivers State earlier than destroying his political construction within the nation's capital .
Since taking workplace, Wike had come beneath heavy fireplace for his selection of appointment.
His appointment of former Chairman of the PDP in Obio/Akpor Rivers space, Chidi Amadi, as Chief of Employees; former PDP State Chairman, Felix Obuah, as Coordinator of Abuja Metropolitan Administration Council; Michael Chinda as Senior Particular Advisor for Rural, City and Regional Planning; and Barivure Fred, one other senior assistant on atmosphere and waste administration, amongst others, have continued to annoy APC members, particularly the indigenes of the FCT.
Talking to journalists on Monday, Abdulwahab Ekekhide, a frontrunner of the APC inside the FCT, criticized the minister's appointments since he took workplace. He described them as crooked, in whole disregard for FCT members of the social gathering who contributed to the President's election victory.
Ekekhide stated: “We wish to inform President Bola Tinubu that Nyesom Wike is destroying the political construction of the APC in FCT due to his disrespect for the social gathering and its management. Since taking workplace, he has refused to serve on the social gathering's management, despite the fact that the social gathering has written him a sequence of letters to grant the social gathering an viewers, all to no avail. We are saying that is unacceptable.
“You’ll all keep in mind a number of months in the past, Wike stated, “Nobody can take over or destroy my political construction in Rivers State.” So why is he now killing the presidential political construction within the FCT? The explanation the APC within the FCT all the time loses elections is as a result of successive ministers import foreigners who don’t belong to any political division or polling station or have voting rights as appointees. However when the time comes for common elections, they are going to pack their luggage and journey to their varied states, leaving the FCT dry.
“We name on Mr. President to warn the minister. Let him strengthen the social gathering in any other case the APC will wrestle to get two p.c and the president might lose the following space council elections in 2027 if the scenario stays like this. These current appointments have proven that Hon. Wike needs to lastly kill and bury the social gathering. We have no idea his agenda, however we are going to oppose additional makes an attempt to ridicule the social gathering.”
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The APC youth chief within the FCT, Isaac David, threatened that if Wike continued to disclaim social gathering members their rights after working so laborious for the president's electoral victory, they could be pressured to withdraw their assist for the president.
“The minister's PVC was not registered within the FCT right here. The identical goes for the PDP loyalists and supporters he brings to Abuja for appointments. In the event that they ignore us, the indigenes and the FCT APC members, we are going to see who will vote him again in 2027.
“We are going to withdraw our assist for Mr. President. Let's see if he plans to win the FCT in 2027,” he stated.
