Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has refuted allegations of double standards in his political dealings with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), insisting that he was upfront about his refusal to support former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar during the 2023 presidential election.
Speaking during his monthly media chat in Abuja on Monday, Wike maintained that his decision to work with the President Bola Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government was based on principle, not betrayal.
He said, “I take exception to people saying I’m double faced, we must like people who will tell you what they will do and they will do it.
“I made it clear that I was not going to support Atiku, I did not attend their meeting after which I did a different thing. I stood for equity, fairness, and justice that it’s the South that should produce the presidency in 2023.
“I never hid so the issue of double faced does not arise. If they said they saw me in their campaign and I went to do a different thing that would have been double faced.
“From day one I said no, I am not going to support them, who am I going to support from the South – in my opinion who stand to win the election, who has the capacity to take away Nigeria from were we where.
“That was my own judgement and I was right, Tinubu won the election because there was the tendency he was going to win and does he have the tendency to bring Nigeria out from where it was?”
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