“I Dare Anyone To Suspend Me”: Nyesom Wike Taunts Atiku, PDP

“I Dare Anyone To Suspend Me”: Nyesom Wike Taunts Atiku, PDP

  • FCT minister, Nyesom Wike has maintained strongly that he did not engage in anti-party activities
  • Wike noted that he wrote to the PDP regarding his ministerial appointment but did not get feedback from the party's leadership
  • The former Rivers state governor however maintained that the party leadership cannot suspend or discipline him as they were the ones who violated the PDP's constitution

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The minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has again thrown shade at Nigeria's main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

FCT minister, Nyesom Wike, PDP, Atiku Abubakar
Wike dares PDP to suspend him. Photo credit: Nyesom Ezenwo Wike - CON, GSSRS, Atiku Abubakar
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The politician who spoke on Wednesday, August 30, exclusively on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme, dared the leadership of his party, the PDP to suspend or discipline him.

Wike said he has not seen the party chieftain who will suspend or expel him from the party.

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“Who will discipline me? I should be the one calling for the discipline of these people who violated the party’s constitution, in the way that the party supported rotation.

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“Who will suspend me? I want to dare anybody,” Wike said.

The ex-governor said he informed PDP leadership before he took the ministerial offer of President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

“If Obi was better, Nigerians would have voted him”: Wike says

The minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has made a fresh revelation regarding the election victory of President Bola Tinubu and the fate that befell Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP).

Wike, the former governor of Rivers state said if Obi was a better candidate, Nigerians would have voted for him in the Saturday, February 25, 2023 poll.

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When asked whether Obi would have handled the major issues confronting the Nigerian economy better than Tinubu if he had been elected, Wike said he doesn’t discuss presidential candidates any longer.

Nyesom Wike-led FCTA pulls down Abuja market

Nyesome Wike-led administration of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has demolished a market called Kasuwan Dare at Hassan Musa Katsina Street, near Kpaduma II in Asokoro Extension, Abuja.

The FCTA officials who carried out the demolition said the market harboured suspected hoodlums and drug dealers.

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