Wike Calls Senator Ireti Kingibe ‘Illiterate’, Says She’ll Lose Parliament Seat Next Year
Ahead of the 2027 general election, FCT minister, Mr Nyesom Wike has submitted that Senator Ireti Kingibe,, who represents FCT in the senate, will lose her parliament seat next year.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned that Mr Wike said this while responding to question from a journalist during an inspection of ongoing road projects in the FCT.
Recall that Senator Ireti Kingibe had accused the FCT Administration of obtaining loans without the approval of the National Assembly, a claim the minister had however rejected.
Mr Wike said Senator Ireti Kingibe’s claim showed a lack of understanding of the process for obtaining government loans.
‘She is an illiterate, with all due respect, and that is why she is not going back to the Senate. She has nothing to offer to the people of the FCT. There is no way you can go and take a loan without the approval of the National Assembly. Anyone takes a loan, you will include it in the budget; this aspect of the budget, the government is going to collect loan,
I don’t want to comment about her. When the time is right, let her pack her bags out, the people have made their choice by agreeing to support President Tinubu, and then will support Philip Aduda for Senate. So, let us not waste our time reacting to inferiors who failed in all aspects. I don’t want to react to it, I am above that.
I thought she would criticise that I am doing nothing. So if her problem is that I took a loan, if I took a loan, I am using it to work. I thought her concern would have been: are we applying the loan to work for the interest of residents? She believes that we can’t run infrastructure without loans, and that we must have taken a loan, that is her problem’ he said.
Kingibe had earlier accused Wike of obtaining loans for the FCT without the required approval of the National Assembly noting that she got the information from the Debt Management Office covering the period between August 2023 and March 2026-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
