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Denies Promising to Hold PDP for Tinubu
- Safiu Kehinde
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has denied the allegation filed against him by the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, who accused him of plot to sabotage the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in favour of President Bola Tinubu.
NPO Reported that Makinde ad in a media chat last week accused Wike of being behind the internal crisis bedeviling the PDP.
The Oyo governor disclosed how Wike had a meeting with Tinubu pledged to hold the PDP for the President’s re-election bid by 2027.
Makinde had said he regretted supporting Tinubu at the 2023 presidential election. He said the decision did not produce the outcome he had hoped for.
Reacting to the allegations at a media parley in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Wike denied making such a promise to Tinubu, stressing that the Oyo State Governor is only speaking out of frustration.
The FCT Minister expressed his disappointment with Makinde as he challenged the Oyo governor for not making the claim known earlier.
“Seyi Makinde has never called me Wike. That was the first time I heard him call me that, and it is very unfortunate.
“First of all, you must ask what that meeting was all about, and would have led me to promise to hold down PDP for Tinubu? Why did Seyin Makinde not come up all this time to say to the party, that see what Wike is doing o? Why didn’t he tell everybody about the so-called meeting?
“And let me put the record straight, there was no such meeting between us. My humble self, the former governors of Benue State, Otom, Abia State, Ikpeazu, Enugu State, Ugwuanyi, and Seyi Makinde, we went to see the President after the election, to discuss certain things.
“While we were there, I called the Chief of Staff to remind us of what we had discussed. So, it is completely out of place for anybody to have said that in a meeting; I said to the President that I will hold PDP for you. That is very unfair. Very, very unfair.
“If you watch Seyi, you can see frustration. And this is a young man we have advised several times that politics is not like dealing with contractors. It has different rules.
“When did Seyi Makinde come into politics? There is nothing wrong with having an ambition, but it must be tailored according to the rules.” Wike said.
The former Rivers governor further talked down Makinde’s presidential ambition, stressing that he does not have the guts to declare his ambition.