Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has blasted former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar over his regular defections across Nigeria’s major political parties.
He recently revealed that Atiku’s actions are driven by his desperate ambition to become president.
Speaking during a media parley in Abuja, Wike said that Atiku jumping from one political party to another is unbecoming.
According to him, if he were Abubakar’s son, he would advise the ADC politician to stop defecting shamelessly in search of power at 80 years old.
“Atiku was in the PDP in 1999, then he joined the Action Congress (AC). After AC, he returned to the PDP, later moved to the All Progressives Congress (APC), and then back to the PDP again, all in pursuit of the presidential ticket.
If I were his son, I would sit him down and ask: ‘Dad, how can you keep hopping from one party to another at almost 80 years old?’” he said.
Blasting Atiku for dumping PDP for ADC, Wike described the switch as nothing more than political survival.
He concluded by saying that it is not even likely that the former PDP man would get the presidential ticket at ADC.
“The way the PDP is now, it is not likely that Atiku would get a ticket, therefore it is not comfortable. Therefore, he tells you, ‘let’s do a coalition against Tinubu.’ It’s not right.
It is because he cannot get the presidential ticket under the PDP that he pushed for a coalition,” he added.
