{"id":168277,"date":"2025-07-04T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/wikes-aide-blames-adc-spokesman-for-pdp-misfortune"},"modified":"2025-07-04T13:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:20:23","slug":"wikes-aide-blames-adc-spokesman-for-pdp-misfortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wikes-aide-blames-adc-spokesman-for-pdp-misfortune","title":{"rendered":"Wike\u2019s Aide Blames ADC Spokesman for PDP Misfortune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has criticised the Interim Spokesperson of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Bolaji Abdullahi, accusing him of contributing to the decline of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, through greed and desperation for power.<\/p>\n

In a statement issued on Friday, Olayinka advised Abdullahi and his associates in what he termed \u201cthe coalition of confusion\u201d to be honest about their true intentions, claiming that their quest for power is self-serving and not in the interest of Nigerians.<\/p>\n

Abdullahi had, on Thursday, stated that he and others were aggrieved because Wike allegedly allowed himself to be used to destroy PDP, once considered one of the most powerful political parties in Africa.<\/p>\n

In response, Olayinka queried whether it was Wike who caused Abdullahi to leave PDP in 2014, or rather his fallout with Senator Bukola Saraki, who, he noted, had politically nurtured Abdullahi from special assistant to minister.<\/p>\n

He stated: \u201cAs usual, in his deceitful manner, Abdullahi failed to mention that the political waka-about of himself and Atiku, his present emergency political leader, contributed to the misfortune of the PDP. Or is it not on record that it was the political treachery of Atiku that frustrated the collective efforts of PDP members in Lagos State to win the State in 2003?<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a minister in the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, why did Abdullahi leave the PDP for the APC then? Was it because the government he was part of failed and Nigerians were angry?<\/p>\n

\u201cAs National Publicity Secretary of the APC, did he leave the party in 2018 because of Wike, or because he saw that his thirst for power could no longer be quenched in the party?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen in 2019 Abdullahi ran unsuccessfully for the PDP governorship nomination in Kwara State, was it because Nigerians were angry? Even in 2023, though he got the PDP senatorial ticket, he still lost to his APC rival.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf after serving as Special Assistant, Special Adviser, and Commissioner in Kwara State, and as a Minister of the Federal Republic, the people of Kwara still could not trust Abdullahi with the governorship ticket or a senatorial mandate, it simply means he is a political liability \u2014 a reality he must accept.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, I think he should stop being deceitful and tell Nigerians the truth about his penchant for \u2018Political Jumpology\u2019, rather than repeating the same rhetoric of \u2018we want to rescue Nigeria.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Olayinka also dismissed Abdullahi\u2019s claim that the coalition was not just anti-Tinubu but focused on saving Nigeria\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaba nah! What manner of lie is this?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can a gathering of people like Atiku Abubakar \u2014 a serial decampee whose former boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, described as patently corrupt; Nasir El-Rufai \u2014 promoter of body bag politics who, as Governor of Kaduna State, knelt before terrorists; Hungry Rotimi Amaechi \u2014 under whom the judiciary in Rivers State was shut down for over a year; Dino Melaye \u2014 who couldn\u2019t vote for himself in his own election; and other frustrated politicians, be about saving democracy?<\/p>\n

\u201cLet Abdullahi and his coalition of confusion stop lying to Nigerians. They selfishly want power for themselves and their cronies \u2014 but too bad, they won\u2019t get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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