The Allied People’s Movement presidential candidate Seyi Makinde has again alleged that the minister of the FCT. Mr. Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) knelt beside President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and promised him to help destabilize his party, PDP, so as to smootehn Tinubu’s relection in 2027.
Mr. Makinde said this during an exlusive TV with Ojy Okpe of Arise TV, which was aired on Friday morning.
Recall that the Oyo State governor while speaking during a media chat in Ibadan last December also recounted a meeting he attended alongside President Tinubu and Wike, and others, where Wike allegedly offered to “hold the PDP” for Tinubu ahead of the 2027 elections, a pledge the governor said came unsolicited by the President.
Wike had dismissed the claim.
The FCT minister had described Makinde’s allegation as a blatant lie and suggested that the Oyo State governor was “frustrated” and lacked the courage to openly declare his own presidential ambitions.
“Seyi Makinde has never called me Wike. That is the first time I have heard him calling me Wike. It’s unfortunate.
“First of all, you ask yourself, what was that meeting? What was the purpose of that meeting? That would have led me to say, Mr President, I will hold PDP down for you,” Mr. Wike had pushed back.
Meaanwhile, the PDP, once one of Africa’s biggest party, has since been destabilized, thanks to myraid of court decisions and internal fighting between two faction, with one loyal to Mr. Wike.
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