Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has mentioned he’s not all in favour of being buddies with the FCT senator, Ireti Kingibe.
Wike informed Kingibe that he can’t be compelled into turning into her buddy. Wike accused the senator of blackmailing him as a substitute of speaking her issues by the suitable channels.
He made the revelation throughout an interview with a cross part of journalists in Abuja, the place he claimed that Kingibe is indignant as a result of the Senate President ignored her for the place of the Senate Committee on FCT.
He mentioned:
“I don’t need to be private…she’s the Senator for FCT. She went round saying ‘oh, oh Wike is busy scraping roads…I ought to depart the roads until when the potholes come?
“Somebody desires to be your buddy and also you say ‘I don’t need to be your buddy. Is it by drive?’ The downside is that she needed to be Chairman, Senate Committee on FCT and the Senate President mentioned ‘I’m not providing you with’.
‘What are you going to supervise me? You cannot supervise me. What is her interest, that I must see her? If I have a problem I’ll go and see her. I don’t have an issue. Nobody can intimidate me. Look, I was a Minister earlier than. I turned a governor of one of the crucial essential states in Nigeria and he or she thinks that the one method you’ll be able to carry me is to go to Channel, TVC, saying the Minister shouldn’t be carrying me alongside.
“I don’t have the back to carry. It’s not about blackmailing. Do the right thing. You know her problem? She ran election with my friend Philip Aduda and she sees me taking Philip everywhere instead of her being the Senator. Should I abandon my friend because she failed election?”
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