Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike has slammed Senator Ireti Kingibe, for criticising him, warning that she will lose in the next 2027 National Assembly elections.
Angry Wike also predicted that Senator Ireti Kingibe will lose the support of the people in 2027.
The Senator Kingibe, an engineer – turned politician is the wife of Ambassador Babagana Kingibe. She is the Senator representing FCT in the Red Chamber of the National Assembly on the platform of the Labour Party (LP).
She had publicly picked holes in the Wike-led administration in the FCT during a television appearance, declaring that she is not an ally of the minister.
The Senator claimed that she has not had a seamless relationship with the Minister in her bids to get the problems of her constituents solved unlike what was obtainable during previous administrations of the FCT.
Kingibe claimed that the FCT residents were not impressed with Wike’s performance, even ad she also alleged that Wike is out of touch with the needs of FCT residents.
In her reckoning, the FCT has no schools, no hospitals and lacks potable water.
But in a swift counter during the flag-off ceremony of the Mabushi Bus Terminal in Abuja on Monday, July 1, the Minister expressed disappointment over Kingibe’s harsh position when she should building stance a collaborative relationship with the FCT Administration.
According to the formal Governor of Rivers State, Senator Kingibe was more interested in residents praising President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
He said “I overheard somebody on Arise TV this morning. Unfortunately, I hear the person is a member of the National Assembly and it is unfortunate I say so. With all due respect, what you don’t know, you don’t know, what you know you know, and the good thing for you is to tell people you don’t when you don’t know, then people will educate you.
“The Honourable Minister of state and my humble self-have not been in office for more than 11 months and the person is angry that they are praising us. If you don’t want or you are angry about that, go and hang yourself on a transformer. If we have done well, we have done well. If we haven’t done well, we haven’t done well. I am proud to say that in the short time that Mr. President has appointed us, we have done well.
“You said there are no hospital and there are no hospitals. You, as a legislator, what have you done? How many bills have you sponsored for us to improve our education and health sector?
“I challenge that legislator. If you are very popular, 2027 come and run under Abuja, we will fail you. Do you think that what happened last time, will happen again? It will not happen again. Luckily for me, I am the FCT Minister now. So that is my territory and I’m not afraid.
“So, people should be able to come out and be able to accept the truth. We are not begging for anybody to become our friend; we have so many friends that we cannot even carry along. So how can we go and beg people to become our friends? We are not interested in that. If you are angry that people are praising us, by next year your BP level will go very high because the praises you would see would be too much.”
