Lere Olayinka, an of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has said the minister’s nuisance value made him local government chairman and governor twice.
Olayinka was reacting to remarks by a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Ibrahim Modibbo, that Wike’s press conferences are of nuisance value.
Wike served as the Executive Chairman of the Obio Akpor Local Government Area in Rivers State from 1999 to 2007.
The minister served as the governor of Rivers State from May 29, 2015, to May 29, 2023.
However, Modibbo charged Wike to stay indoors during the 2027 general elections and not harass the electorate.
Featuring on AIT’s Democracy Today, Modibbo on Friday evening, said: “On the day of the election, Wike should stay in his house and not go around harassing people.
“During the local government election he was going round the city to harass people which he doesn’t have the right. Wike’s media chat is of nuisance value.”
Responding, Olayinka said: “I can also say that your coming here is of nuisance value, Wike’s nuisance value made him a local government Chairman, that nuisance value made him governor for two terms, he worn election twice, with his nuisance value he said Atiku will not win 2023 and he did not; but you that have nuisance value has not been governor or chairman, so whose nuisance value is better.
“Nuisance value that made somebody a governor or the one that has not made you anything.”
Wike’s nuisance value made him governor twice – Lere Olayinka replies ADC chieftain