Makinde Lied, I Never Offered To Hold PDP For Tinubu – Wike
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has faulted Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State’s allegation that in a meeting with President Bola Tinubu, he (Wike) offered to hold the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the President.
Wike made the rebuttal during his end-of-year media chat in Port Harcourt on Monday.
Recalled that Makinde had recently told journalists that Wike, during a visit to the State House in 2024, promised to “hold PDP” for President Tinubu.
The Minister said it was a lie, and wondered why the Oyo State Governor could lie so brazenly.
He said that the meeting they held with the President had nothing to do with PDP but to show support for his leadership.
According to him, his position on supporting Tinubu had never been hidden and did not need a meeting to confess that.
“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 want to go on national television to lie against people just because he didn’t get the ministerial slot he wanted from the President.
He said he had not gotten the kind of support Makinde 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 Oyo governor owed his people a duty to tell them how the money was spent, adding that such money should have been appropriated before spending.
