Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Monday, dismissed the allegation by the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, that he (Wike) had offered to hold the Peoples Democratic Party for President Bola Tinubu.
Wike denied the allegation during his end-of-year media chat in Port Harcourt on Monday.
Makinde had recently told journalists that Wike, during a visit to the State House in 2024, promised to “hold PDP” for President Tinubu.
Wike said that the meeting they held with the President had nothing to do with the PDP but to show support for Tinubu’s leadership.
According to the FCT Minister, his position on supporting Tinubu had never been hidden and did not need a meeting to confess that.
He added, “Seyi said I told Tinubu that I will hold PDP for him. Nothing like that happened. Everyone knows my stand on Tinubu, I don’t need a meeting to tell him that.
“As a minister, I have a duty to ensure that members of the G-5 benefitted from the Tinubu administration in one way or the other.”
Wike said Governor Makinde was only angry because President Tinubu did not approve his candidate for a ministerial appointment, adding that it was wrong for the governor to go on national television to lie against him.
He said he had not received the kind of support Mankinde got from Tinubu, including a N50 billion grant for victims of the January 2024 explosion in Bodija in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Wike maintained that the governor owed his people a duty to tell them how the money was spent, adding that such money should have been appropriated before spending.
