The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has responded to the outburst of the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike against its leaders.
During a media chat in Abuja on Wednesday, the FCT Minister took on the leaders of the newly formed coalition, such as Chibuike Amaechi, David Mark, Aminu Tambuwal, Haji Sirika, among others.
According to Wike, those set of people had been in government for a long period of time but could not do anything to help the ordinary people but were now saying they want to save the country.
Wike believed that the government of President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, APC, which he currently serves, were doing enough, despite challenges to lift Nigerians out of the current economic realities.
He said that most of the people in the coalition lacked the moral rights to form an alliance against a working government when they had opportunities to do more.
But in a statement signed by Mal. Bolaji Abdullahi, the Spokesman of the Coalition Movement, the ADC lambasted the FCT Minister who, according to them, had refused to pay teacher’s salaries but was commissioning elephant projects.
The ADC said that Wike’s behaviour is incompatible with the office of a Minister, adding that the Minister is now afraid because a coalition to take out the government he serves has successfully unveiled.
Abdullahi told Wike that the coalition was a product of failed promises by the Tinubu administration and the suffering of Nigerians, adding that had the FCT Minister and the current government kept their promises to the people, there would been no need for a coalition.
“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,” the statements he added.
