APC National Secretary To Wike: Your ‘Transactional Relationship’ Allegations Untrue, Resign From Your Position Without Delay

APC National Secretary, Barrister Basiru Ajibola submitted on Monday that the public declaration of support for President Bola Tinubu by the FCT Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike ahead of the 2027 presidential election does not in any way imply that he has become a member of the ruling APC while calling the reaction of the former Rivers State governor to the advice he had given a fellow member of the National Working Committee of the party, Hon Victor Giadom ‘uncouth responses’.

He said this in reaction to the statements made by the minister warning him to stay away from Rivers State politics to avoid suffering negative consequences..

‘Let me warn those who come to Rivers State, because you have heard that we have N600 billion, you come here, you collect, and you open your mouth to talk anyhow.

I say it here, take this message to your National Secretary, leave Rivers State alone. Go and ask those who have done it before. Please don’t take our support for Mr President for granted. You have to be careful with the statements you make.

Today, you are enjoying in Osun, you don’t know those who did the work. You are opening your mouth to talk about Rivers State. Anything you see, take it.

Go and ask other people what has happened to them before. If your hand burns, no be me burn am o. This state is a no-go area. Take the one you have taken, stop making unnecessary comments’  Wike had submitted during his thank-you visit to Oyigbo Local Government, Rivers State.

Recall that Ajibola had on Sunday taken to Facebook to condemn the comments made by APC National Vice Chairman (South South), Hon Victor Giadom in respect of Governor Siminalayi Fubara.

‘I find it unfortunate that a member of the NWC, who is the Vice Chairman of the South-South zone of the APC, was referring to a governor in our party as a ‘so-called governor of Rivers State’. No matter what his allegiances are to anybody, it is unbecoming of somebody holding such a sensitive position, and it should not be encouraged by anybody.

Even if the governor is not in our party, you can’t refer to an elected governor as a ‘so-called governor’ in order to please anybody. The office of the governor is an exalted position, and whoever is occupying it must be respected, irrespective of whatever political differences you have or whatever animosity exists between them’ Ajibola Basiru, a former senator, had submitted in the Facebook post in question.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that Ajibola in a statement he issued in Abuja on Monday not only reacted to the ‘stay away from Rivers State politics or get your fingers burnt’ threat, but also described as untrue the ‘money-seeking relationship’ allegations raised against him by Wike while threatening to take a legal action if the minister fails to provide evidence.

‘My attention has been drawn to the tirade of the Minister of the FCT against my person and my office as the National Secretary of the APC. This is as regards my position that all members of the NWC must accord any sitting governor his due respect and that the governors remain the leaders of the party in their respective states.

It is shocking that such an innocuous statement can elicit such uncouth responses from no less than a member of the Federal Executive Council.

 For the avoidance of doubt, our records indicate that Minister Nyesom Wike is not a member of our party (APC) so he lacks the locus to dabble into the affairs our party. And as National Secretary of the APC, I am imbued with the responsibility to protect the interests of the party and all its members and structures. Hence, my comments on the affairs of the APC in Rivers State cannot be an undue interference in the affairs of Rivers State. As National Secretary, my activities cannot be confined to my home state, Osun State.

 I also take exception to Wike’s reference to a certain N600 billion largesse in the state for which I and other APC leaders are scrambling. This is nothing but a cheap blackmail which has become his stock-in-trade. My background, track-record is that of unquestionable integrity and I challenge him to prove his allegations or we may meet in court.

As to his veiled threat against me, let me remind Wike that he is not God and may be overplaying his political card. My faith is in God and will not succumb to cheap threats such as the one from Wike. I was one of the young Nigerians that confronted military rule, fighting for democracy, when the likes of Wike were nowhere in sight.

Let me also remind Nyesom Wike that his support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, does not automatically make him a member of the APC. Millions of non-APC Nigerians also support Mr. President and his own is no different. His attempt to destabilize our party in Rivers State will not be tolerated and he cannot bring the spirit of PDP into the APC’ he said.

. That was not all, Barrister Basiru Ajibola also advised the FCT minister to resign from his position without delay.

‘Finally, my advice to Nyesom Wike is that he cannot be in the Federal Executive Council of an APC Government and be causing confusion within any organ or structure of the party at any level, using the leverage of that same office. The honourable thing to do is to resign his appointment as Minister’ he added-Team@orientactualmags.com  Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08035023079,  08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com.  Thank you