I don’t want your friendship- Wike tells Female FCT Senator

March 17, 2024 Joshua Samuel

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has warned FCT Senator Ireti Kingibe that he cannot be forced to be her friend.

Wike chastised the Senator, accusing her of blackmailing him rather than addressing her concerns through the appropriate channels or, better yet, focusing on her oversight responsibilities.

The former Rivers Governor claimed this in an interview with journalists in Abuja, claiming that the senator is upset because the Senate President passed over her for the Senate Committee on FCT position.

His words: “I don’t want to be personal…she’s the Senator for FCT. She went around saying ‘Oh, oh Wike is busy scraping roads…I should leave the roads till when the potholes come?

“Somebody wants to be your friend, and you say, ‘I don’t want to be your friend. Is it by force?’ The problem is that she wanted to be Chairman of the Senate Committee on FCT, and the Senate President said, ‘I’m not giving you’

‘What are you going to supervise me? You cannot supervise me. What is her interest, and why must I see her? If I have a problem, I’ll go and see her. I don’t have a problem. Nobody can intimidate me. Look, I was a Minister before.

I became governor of one of Nigeria’s most significant states, and she believes that the only way to bring me is to go to Channels, TVC, because the Minister is not carrying me along.

“I don’t have the back to carry. It’s not about blackmailing. Do the right thing. You know her problem? She ran for 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 he failed the election?”

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