Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike has challenged Senator Ireti Kingibe to travel to the satellite towns and campaign against his service in President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet if she is confident in her political credentials.
Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the FCT Minister, Lere Olayinka, said in a statement on Tuesday that Kingibe is already blinded by the spirit of her impending electoral defeat and will never see the positive transformation taking place in Abuja and the FCT satellite towns.
On Monday night, the senator stated on television that Tinubu’s worst mistake was appointing Wike as Minister of the FCT.
However, Olayinka said, “It is funny that someone who is impersonating by using the name of Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe, who is no longer her husband, believes that jumping from one television station to another to disparage the FCT Minister will revive her dead political career.”
He therefore “challenged Ireti to go to communities like Saburi, Dei Dei, Kabusa, Ketti, Yangoji, Pai, Gomani, Gishiri, Kwaita, Yebu, Yangoji, Sukuku, Ebo, Ushafa and others that now have good roads, to mount the rostrum and tell the people that President Tinubu made a mistake by appointing Wike as FCT Minister.”
“Most importantly, she can also visit traders in the Apo Mechanic Village, whose dream of being relocated to a permanent site is being fulfilled more than 15 years later, as well as those residing along Apo-Wasa road, and tell them it was a mistake that Wike was appointed as FCT Minister.
“In Abaji, Federal Capital Territory University, Abaji (FCTU), a university established close to 15 years ago but abandoned, is now witnessing a massive infrastructural development.
“Also, general renovation of 22 schools has been done in the last 12 months, while renovation of more than 40 others is ongoing.
“As expected of someone already blinded by the spirit of a coming defeat, Ireti, alias Kingibe, won’t see all these. The reason is she knows that in 2027, she won’t be able to retain the Senate seat she accidentally got in 2023. She knows that the factor that got her to the Senate is no longer available, and she is desperate to use attacks on Wike to gain political leverage.
“Unfortunately, Wike is not in the comity of frustrated politicians like Ireti ‘Kingibe’, who is treating her aides like slaves, refusing to pay their wages and entitlements for months,” Olayinka said.
While encouraging Ireti to be real, Olayinka stated, “At 71, a woman should have a clear identity, use her legitimate names, and stop using the name of a man she is no longer married to.”
