‘Tinubu made a big blunder by appointing Wike FCT Minister’ —Sen. Kingibe

The lawmaker representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the National Assembly, Senator Ireti Kingibe, has taken her war with the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, to another level by blaming President Bola Tinubu for appointing the former Rivers State governor as a minister.

Kingibe who launched another scathing attack on Wike while speaking during an interview on Arise TV on Monday, described his appointment as a big mistake and a blunder by Tinubu because according to her, Wike has only brought hardship on the people of the FCT with his style of leadership which is replete with disregard for the law.

Asserting that her conflict with Wike stems from his alleged autocratic leadership and consistent violation of constitutional procedures, Sen. Kingibe stated that the minister is not only autocratic but does not obey the rule of law.

“The primary thing is that the minister doesn’t obey the rule of law. He’s autocratic. He doesn’t follow any rules or any laws. And when you try to draw his attention that governance is based on laws, the rule of law, he doesn’t accept that,” Kingibe said.

Continuing, she said:

“Minister Nyesom Wike has brought back agencies without the enabling laws. If he wants these things, he should ask the National Assembly to create the enabling laws. But he doesn’t, because he’s just autocratic. He feels, I can do anything.”

Citing the revocation of land allocated to the University of Abuja, the lawmaker said:

“Abuja University had approximately 11,000 hectares. Minister Wike has revoked 7,000 of it and left them with four. It is definitely against the Land Use Act for you to take land from institutions to give them to individuals.

“Every minister has come and found the streets being cleaned by indigent women. Even when some ministers come and want to bring mechanical street sweepers, we say, no, this is a source of livelihood for our indigent women, widows and other underprivileged women. He comes, he’s fired them all… Then he doesn’t replace them with mechanical street sweepers. So Abuja is looking dirty.

“There are these people called Abuja Small Indigenous Contractors, maybe about four or five hundred of them that had not been paid. He says, no, he’s not paying them. He didn’t give them the job. And that’s that. And he didn’t. Two years on, they haven’t been paid.

“If truly, Minister Wike is as popular as he claims, you’re talking about that poll, depending on who conducted the poll and how it was conducted. I’m not knocking it, but I am saying, local government elections are coming in a few months.

“When we come to any kind of election, can he tell the people, go and do this and they do it? If he can’t, then it means that all that any minister has been doing is blustering and carrying on and just making noise.

“It’s my personal opinion that that is rather unfortunate, because if I were making a list of all the things that President Tinubu has done wrong, the greatest wrong he’s done to himself, the thing that has demarcated him the most has been on Minister Wike.

“In Bwari, there’s land allocated for a general hospital. Minister Wike revokes it and he’s having some sort of a market or mall or something put on it.

“Minister Wike has been harassing all of FCT over ground rent… including embassies.

“Wike does not go to the National Assembly for anything except budget. TSA, all his IGR, what has he done with it? He’s never accounted for anything.

“I’m definitely not afraid of him. I’m not saying he should be afraid of me. I’m just saying that considering he should be aware that most things he does, I will know,” she added.

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