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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has lashed out at activist lawyer, Dele Farotimi, describing him as \u201chuman rice and beans activist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Olayinka said Farotimi has lost his rational sense of reasoning.<\/p>\n

His comment comes after the activist lawyer criticized Wike, calling him names.<\/p>\n

This followed the back and forth criticisms between Wike and the former Minister of Transportation and ex-Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi.<\/p>\n

Farotimi wrote on X: \u201cNyesom Wike: poster boy of the Nigerian ruining crass. Cacophonous, parasitic, narcissistic, Lilliputian, gluttonous, myopic, and completely untouched by any desire for immortality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reacting, Olayinka wondered why the activist lawyer would attack Wike who built law school but support the one that never built a school during his eight years as governor.<\/p>\n

Posting on X, he wrote: \u201cWhen as a lawyer and human rice and beans activist like @DeleFarotimi, you have lost your sense of rational reasoning, you will be supporting, promoting and defending a man who built no single school throughout his 8 years as governor, but attacking another man who built the law school that many of the law graduates that will be called to bar this week attended.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has lashed out at activist lawyer, Dele Farotimi, describing him as \u201chuman rice and beans activist.\u201d Olayinka said Farotimi has lost his rational sense of reasoning. 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