Nyesom Wike, a former governor of Rivers State, asserts that the Bola Tinubu administration’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gave him permission to accept the ministerial job.
Wike stated the PDP was fully informed before he accepted the role and referred to the party’s leaders as “reggae dancers” for threatening to censure him.
The former governor added that Tinubu wrote to the 36 state governors, including PDP governors, who, in his account, provided the president with 10 candidates for ministerial nominations.
“Can you even mention who is my enemy? Can you even mention one person that is my enemy?” Wike said at his first press briefing as a minister of the Federal Republic in Abuja on Monday.
“See, people carry propaganda. Let me use this opportunity to tell you that I don’t like people who don’t tell the truth.
“They said they’re going to sanction me because I accepted the appointment. I don’t have any clause.
“The president wrote to the 36 state governors to bring names of people to appoint, didn’t PDP governors submit names?
“Every PDP governor wrote a letter and nominated ten persons to be appointed by this government.
“But the one they talk about is Wike. Before this appointment came, I wrote to the national chairman. I wrote to the minority leaders of the House of Reps and Senate.
“I wrote to the zonal chairman of the party and my state chairman. I wrote to my governor and all of them wrote me back and said “accept.”‘
“I have my evidence documented. Forget these reggae dancers. I call them reggae dancers because when you’ve lost your opportunity, you’ve lost your opportunity because of arrogance and impunity.”
