The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has said that the FCT Minister is having sleepless nights over the timber and calibre that make up the ADC, which is why he launched an attack on the various leaders of the coalition movement.
Mal. Bolaji Abdullahi, spokesman of the coalition movement, in a statement said that without justifying this behaviour, which they find incompatible with the office of a federal minister, they believe Minister Wike could only descend to that level because of his mortal fear of the threat that the successful unveiling of the coalition of opposition political parties constitutes to the government he serves.
The statement observed that if Minister Wike and the government he serves had kept their promises to the Nigerian people, the coalition movement would not have been necessary and he would not have had any reason 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.”
According to the statement, Minister Wike claimed in his media chat that the coalition leaders are driven only by grievances. 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 an 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 has allowed himself to be used by the government he serves to destroy one of the most powerful political parties in Africa, the PDP,” the statement further added.
“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,” it said.
