‘Tinubu made a big mistake by appointing Minister Wike FCT’ – Sen. Kingibe

MPs who represent the Federal Capital Region (FCT) in the National Assembly, Senator Ireti Kingibe, have fought with FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, to other levels by blaming the President of the Tinubu Bola for the former Governor of the State Rivers as Minister.

Kingibe who launched another spicy attack on Wike while speaking during an interview on Arise TV on Monday, described his appointment as a big mistake and a mistake by Tinubu because according to him, Wike only brought difficulties to FCT people with his leadership style full of neglect of the law.

Asserted that the conflict with Wike came from alleged autocratic leadership and violations that were consistent with constitutional procedures, Senator Kingibe stated that the minister was not only autocratic but did not comply with the rule of law.

“The main thing is that the minister does not comply with the rule of law. He is autocratic. He does not follow any rules or any law. And when you try to attract his attention that governance is based on law, rule of law, he does not accept it,” Kingibe said.

Continue, he said:

“Minister regret Wike has brought back the agency without law that is possible. If he wants these things, he must ask the National Assembly to make the law that is possible. But he does not do it, because he is only autocratic. He feels, I can do anything.”

Citing the revocation of land allocated to Abuja University, MPs said:

“Abuja University has around 11,000 hectares. Minister Wike has revoked 7,000 and left them with four. This must be contrary to the law of land use for you to take land from institutions to give it to individuals.

“Every minister has come and finds the paths cleaned by poor women. Even when some ministers come and want to bring mechanical street sweepers, we say, no, this is a source of livelihood for our poor women, widows and underprivileged women. She comes, she will fire them all … Then she does not replace them with mechanical sweepers.

“There are people called Abuja’s small traditional contractors, maybe around four or five hundred of those who have not been paid. He said, no, he did not pay them. He did not give them a job. And that was alone. He did not. Two years later, they had not been paid.

“If really, the Minister of Wike is as popular as he claims, you talk about the poll, depending on who is doing the poll and how it is done. I do not knock it, but I say, the local government election will come in a few months.

“When we come to any election, can he tell people, go and do this and they do it? If he can’t, then that means that everything that is done by each minister is to tear down and continue and only make noise.

“This is my personal opinion that it is somewhat unfortunate, because if I make a list of all the things that have been made by President Tinubu, the biggest mistake he made for himself, the thing that most limits him is to Minister Wike.

“In Bwari, there is land allocated for general hospitals. Minister Wike revoked it and he has a kind of market or mall or something he is wearing.

“Minister Wike has harassed all FCTs for land rent … including the embassy.

“Wike did not go to the National Assembly for anything except the budget. TSA, all his IGRs, what had he done with it? He never calculated anything.

“I was clearly not afraid of him. I didn’t say he had to be afraid of me. I just said that remembering he had to realize that most of the things he did, I would know,” he added.