Taiwo Popoola
Former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to President Bola Tinubu, Aliyu Audu, has accused Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, of destroying both the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the same time.
Audu said that the FCT Minister was in the PDP but controls the APC in Rivers State and in the federal capital, with the support of President Bola Tinubu.
Audu, a member of the APC, stated this during an interview on Arise News on Thursday, describing Wike as a major problem for the PDP and the APC.
“Wike is destroying the PDP with the support of the president because the office of the minister of the FCT is a state power that can be used to back the president.
“The government I’m part of,” he said in an interview with Arise News.
“The most uncomfortable part of it that I’ve come to realize, with my resignation, is how we are very comfortable with pretending that our problem exists, or we acknowledge it exists, we have the energy to solve the problem, but rather expend that energy in avoiding the consequences of solving a problem.
“We want to build but something is in our way. We could use the energy to go through it, but rather side step it and know that thing is forever coming to haunt us.
“The FCT minister, he’s in PDP, but he controls the APC in Rivers State and in the FCT.
“I am a member of the APC in FCT. I ran for local government chairman in FCT in APC 2015. I did not win the primary ticket, but I was instrumental to our winning the local government.
“So if you really love the country, you love the party, and the person who wins, you’re going to work with him to deliver on where you want to deliver.
“I mean, basically, in our case, what has happened is that we had a Wike who is a member of the PDP, destroying the PDP with the support of the President, because the office of the minister of the FCT is not a political position.
“It’s a state power. So if you keep that state power to back someone to destroy the opposition, let’s remind ourselves that the fact that President Bola Tinubu is president today is thanks to the existence of opposition.
“He might have played a huge role in keeping a position alive, and he has the biggest reward from installing himself practically.
“It’s not destroying the opposition, because you don’t want rivalry, you can’t sell me a liberalized economy, but monopolize politics.
“It doesn’t work. You are against monopoly in the economy, but you are promoting monopoly in politics. Economy is a subset of politics.”
