{"id":168286,"date":"2025-07-04T12:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/wike-criticizes-amaechi-over-project-commissioning"},"modified":"2025-07-04T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:21:09","slug":"wike-criticizes-amaechi-over-project-commissioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-criticizes-amaechi-over-project-commissioning","title":{"rendered":"Wike Criticizes Amaechi Over Project Commissioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Friday said a chieftain of the opposition coalition is \u201cpained\u201d that President Bola Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima, Senate President Godswill Akpabio and other top government dignitaries are commissioning projects across Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remark in response to claims by a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Rotimi Amaechi, that Nigerians are angry with Tinubu\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>Amaechi had made the remark during an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today last night.<\/p>\n<p>However, Wike rubbished Amaechi\u2019s claim, during the commissioning of the Newly Rehabilitated Aguma Palace-Radio Nigeria-New Market Road in the Gwagwalada area council of the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cMr President, it is the 16th day [that] you have devoted time to personally participate in the commissioning ceremony and I never knew that people were so pained that so many things were going on very well in the FCT until last night when I was watching Politics Today that I saw one of the presidential aspirants of coalition so pained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was so pained by the fact that Mr President, Vice President, Senate President, Senate President, Speaker, SGF, are coming to commission projects, yet they said that Nigerians are angry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGwagwalada people, are you angry? It\u2019s important to ask you this question so that we will hear from Nigerians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Friday said a chieftain of the opposition coalition is \u201cpained\u201d that President Bola Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima, Senate President Godswill Akpabio and other top government dignitaries are commissioning projects across Abuja. 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