…Says Mark, Amaechi, Tambuwal, Malami, others failed politicians
Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ally and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has slammed the anti-Tinubu coalition which on Wednesday took over the structure of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
He dismissed the arrowheads of the coalition as “a gang of failed and expired politicians.”
The former Rivers State Governor descended on the kingpins of the coalition, criticising each of them for failing in previous political positions.
Wike accused the former Senate President and the interim National Chairman of the coalition ADC, David Mark, of doing nothing for his people when he was in office as Senate President for eight years.
He also claimed that Mark wanted to be chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) but was resisted and has now gone to take that of the ADC.
Wike alleged: “I heard David Mark say they want to rescue Nigeria. That Nigerians are not happy. But the man was Senate President for 8 years, and Nigerians were happy?
“There was no single project in Otukpo. Not one. He was flying with a helicopter to Otukpo. Nigerians were not angry then, but they are angry now?”
Wike further claimed that Senator Mark, as leader of the PDP in his area, “lost elections, as his daughter, who ran under the All Progressives Congress (APC), won to the House of Representatives.”
He also took a swipe at a former Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, accusing him of mortgaging Nigeria’s future to China.
“Amaechi was minister. He took Chinese loans and made Nigeria so indebted to China. So, Nigerians were happy then?
“When you were in power, Nigerians were happy, but the moment you are no longer in power, Nigerians are no longer happy.”
On a former Minister for Aviation during President Muhammadu Buhari ‘s administration, Wike said: “I saw Sirika. What happened to Air Nigeria? Nigerians were happy then?
“When they went to APC in 2013 and took over power, Nigerians were happy, but no longer happy today?
“Was it under Tinubu’s government that banditry came? What is he doing? To solve the problems he met.”
Wike also did not spare Buhari’s Minister for Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami.
“I read what Malami wrote. It was so shameful. He was AGF. What did he do? What was his contribution to resolving the security challenges?”
Tongue -lashing a former Governor of Sokoto, Wike said: “Tambuwal was Speaker for four years. What did he do to make Nigerians not be angry? He was governor for eight years. What did he do? What kind of politics are we playing?” He queried.
Continuing, Wike said that the former sports minister, Bolaji Abdullahi, only moved to the ADC because he has fallen out with his godfather, Senator Bukola Saraki.
