The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has described the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike’s reaction to the new opposition coalition reflected his mortal fear of being voted out of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government.
Spokesman of the Coalition Movement, Mal. Bolaji Abdullahi, said this in a statement on Thursday while reacting to Wike’s scathing remarks about the coalition and its leaders during thr latter’s monthly televised media chat.
He said, “If the minister and the government that he serves had kept their promises to the Nigerian people, the coalition movement would not have been necessary and he would not have had a need to be so jittery.
“If minister Wike had paid the salaries of primary school teachers who have been on strike for several months and if he had not treated FCT workers with so much contempt, while he goes about commissioning white elephant projects running into billions of Naira, he would have had no need to be afraid of the coalition.”
Further reacting to Wike’s claim that the coalition leaders were driven only by grievances, the Coalition spokesman said: “If we have any grievances, it is the way the government he is a part of has driven the majority of Nigerians into poverty and misery.
“We are aggrieved to see children of the poor unable to get education because he would not pay their teachers’ salaries. We are aggrieved to watch the growing insecurity in the FCT that he superintends. We are aggrieved that minister Wike had allowed himself to be used by the government he serves to destroy one of the most powerful political parties in Africa, the PDP.”
“But it is rather too late in the day to cry. The coalition movement belongs to the Nigerian people who had been promised renewed hope, but have been served renewed hopelessness. Therefore, no amount of tirade against the leaders of the coalition could stem the tide of this popular movement,” Abdullahi added.
