The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has challenged any governor or leader of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), to publicly call him a mole.
Wike, who appeared on Channels Television’s “Politics Today,” dared anyone to come forward and accuse him of being a mole.
Clarifying the infamous “I’ll put fire in your states” comment when asked if he regretted making the comment by the Host of the show, Seun Okinbaloye, the former governor explained that it was figurative.
“Who’s talking of fire? I did not mean going to Bauchi state or Oyo state to burn it.
“If you come to my state to cause trouble and I have the capacity to withstand it, who told you that in my own little capacity, I can’t cause political trouble in your own states?”
Tracing hie appointment as FCT Minister, Wike said, “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.
“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.
“In 2023, 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? Did the PDP not win the National Assembly? Did the PDP not win the State Assembly? I challenge any of them in any of these (PDP) states who won 100 per cent as we have. How did we do it? Leadership!”
He described himself as a man of his word. He revealed that Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki approached him to seek support for his preferred successor, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, but he told him to his face he would not because his support for Obaseki in the past earned him nothing but unending insults.
While admitting that the Edo State Resident Electoral Commissioner, is his first cousin, Wike said, just like him, “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 noted that the Edo REC was posted to the state over one year ago, he wondered why those claiming to be the PDP at all levels were raising the issue now.
The former Rivers State Governor also said the decision of Governor Similaye Fubara to destroy the political family which brought him to power was an offence he was unwilling to forgive.
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