ABUJA: Ahead of 2024 Edo state Governorship elections, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has admitted that the Edo State Resident Electoral Commissioner, is his first cousin.
Wike said, just like him, “Nobody can intimidate his cousin, not even the INEC Chairman. Nobody born of a woman can intimidate my cousin into doing what is not right.”
The FCT minister stated this in an interview on a Channels’ Television Political Programme, Politics Today, on Friday in Abuja.
Vanguard reports that the Edo REC was posted to the state over one year ago.
The former governor of Rivers state wondered why those claiming to be the PDP at all levels were raising the issue now.
Also , he dared any PDP’s governor or leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to come on national television and call him a mole.
For instance, the minister said, “Before he accepted his appointment as Minister, he wrote a letter to the PDP in his state.
“I wrote a letter to the PDP in my zone; I wrote a letter to the PDP national, who in PDP is saying I’m a mole, name names,” he dared.
According to him, “The problem we have in this country is that some people think they’re smart.” Saying that whatever he wants to do he will do and what he does not want to do he will not do.
“I dare any body in PDP, I dare any governor, I dare any National Working Committee member to come on national television to say I’m a mole,”said Wike.
Moreover, “In 2023, did I not say I won’t support the PDP (Presidential) candidate because it is against equity, it is against fairness? Did I do it at the back? He boasted.
“Did the PDP not win the governorship? Did the PDP not win the National Assembly? Did PDP not win the state assembly?
“I challenge any of them in any of this (PDP) states who won 100 percent as we have to speak publicly.”
“How did we do it? Leadership!”
Truth Live News learned that Wike further described himself as a man of his words.
He revealed that Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, approached him to seek support for his preferred successor, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, but he told him to his face he would not because his support for Obaseki in the past earned him nothing but unending insults.
Meanwhile, the former Rivers State Governor also has said that the decision of Governor Similaye Fubara to destroy the political family which brought him to power was an offence he was unwilling to forgive.