The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Nyesom Wike has taken a swipe at a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Rivers Abiye Sekibo; ex-PDP National Chairman Uche Secondus; ex-governorship aspirant Celestine Omehia and former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Austin Opara, describing them as “expired politicians.”
Wike was reacting to the support they declared last week for Governor Siminalayi Fubara where they called on President Bola Tinubu to caution Wike over his opposition to Fubara.
Wike also revealed that he has parted ways with his godfather former Governor Peter Odili.
He spoke during a live media chat monitored by The Nation in Abuja.
Wike, on Odili, said: “As it is today, politically, we don’t have a good relationship. We don’t work together”.
“For me, we have finished with this stage. It does not mean that in the next stage you will be in the same camp. No. He made a decision. I made a decision.”
He, however, said Odili is his father despite existing political differences.
Wike said the PDP leaders who declared support for Fubara were “political buccaneers”, just as he described Sekibo, Secondus, Omehia and Opara as expired politicians who are not worthy to be called “elder statesmen”.
According to the FCT Minister, they are all irrelevant, adding that he had kicked them out of the party.
He said Secondus was no longer a member of the PDP as his suspension was validated by the court.
Wike said: “The other day, I saw a political conference organised by transactional politicians. Political vampires, political buccaneers,”
Wike said: “Do you know who is called an elder statesman? An elder statesman is someone who must have integrity; who must not be here today and be there tomorrow.”
Wike lamented that it was ironic that the same set of people who had refused to support Fubara before the 2023 polls now declare support for him after the poll.
He said: “Today, they are not only serving a boy but they are waiting for him on the road. Do they have integrity? The same people who said this governor was a neophyte, how can they bring themselves to support him?
“They wrote a petition when this Governor wanted to collect his certificate in PDP, they carried a rumour on how he became chairman and that he is being looked for by EFCC. They said he was not coming to PDP national secretariat but they were surprised that the governor went to the PDP secretariat,”
