Nyesom Wike, the newly appointed Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has claimed that President Bola Tinubu’s choice of him to the position of minister was supported by PDP leaders.
This was confirmed by the former Rivers governor on Monday during a news conference, shortly after he and 44 other newly appointed ministers were sworn in in Abuja.
According to a previous article from Anaedoonline.ng, Wike promised to demolish any homes constructed in Abuja illegally in order to sabotage the city’s master plan, regardless of who owned them.
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Wike had said, “All those people who are distorting the masterplan of Abuja, too bad. If you know you have built where you are not supposed to build, it will go down.”
Prior to the former governor’s nomination by the president, some PDP members had made attempts to have him suspended due to his connections to APC members and his acceptance of the ministerial offer.
However, Wike claimed he addressed to party officials, including PDP acting chairperson Iliya Damagum, and obtained their consent to serve in Tinubu’s cabinet.
“They said they’ll sanction me that I took an appointment — that’s ridiculous,” he said.
“The president wrote to all the 36 state governors to bring names of people to appoint. Didn’t PDP governors submit names? Every PDP governor wrote a letter and nominated 10 persons for appointment in this (Tinubu’s) government.
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“Before this appointment came, I wrote to the national party chairman, minority leader of the house of representatives and senate, zonal chairman of the party, my state chairman, and my governor.
“All of them wrote me back: ‘Accept it’. I have it in evidence documented.”
The PDP has experienced an ongoing internal crisis that has split the organisation.
After Wike lost the PDP presidential nomination to Atiku Abubakar in June of last year, the situation for the opposition party deteriorated.
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