Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Monday, tackled former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over his push to be Nigeria’s president.
Mocking Atiku’s over his clamour, Wike wondered if they prescribed drugs for the presidency to Atiku.
He recalled Atiku’s political sojourn across several political parties in the push to become president.
Speaking during his monthly media chat, Wike dismissed the former presidential candidate over his reaction to the local government election in Rivers State.
Atiku had condemned the results of last Saturday’s election, stressing that a powerful cabal was out to suppress democracy in the state.
Wike said: “The court stopped the last local government election and the government went ahead to conduct the election. The same Atiku hailed the government for disobeying the court order.
“The Federal High Court gave an injunction that the election not be held and we thought that as a man who occupied that number two position, all he would have done was say look, we are in a democratic system, it doesn’t matter how the judgment goes, you must respect the rule of law.
“But he supported that election should take place. I don’t blame Atiku because he was recalcitrant to his boss, he didn’t know that his boss signed emergency rule in 2004, if he was obedient and worked with Obasanjo, he would have known that the president has power to make regulations in emergency areas.
“So he was not in tune and like I said, what you don’t know you don’t comment about it.
“Look at the man, look at his antecedents, 1999 he was in PDP, 2007 he ran under AC, 2011 he came back to the PDP to run for presidential election, 2014 he left to APC and ran for the presidency, 2017 he came back to PDP and became its candidate in 2019 and 2023.
“Now again, he has left to ADC to seek the presidency. did they prescribe drugs for presidency for him?”
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