The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has rejected calls by the factional Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Umar Turaki, SAN, for the US President Donald Trump’s intervention in Nigeria. He recently insisted that the nation’s democracy is not under threat, and Nigerians have been reacting.
Speaking during a courtesy visit by the board members of the South-South Development Commission, led by Chairman Chibudom Nwuche, to his office, Wike said that Turaki’s statement was a threat to national security.
According to him, Turaki cannot blame Tinubu’s administration for the PDP’s internal crisis, so he should stop lying about the country’s democracy being unstable.
He stated that the Turaki faction’s refusal to obey court judgments is an act of impunity that will not be tolerated.
“Look at a threat to national security. You are calling on Trump to come and save your democracy when you cannot obey a simple court judgment. Simple court judgment: don’t do this until you have done this.
Now you are turning it around against a government. What is their business? You cannot keep your house in order; you are blaming an outsider for not keeping your house in order.
Who does that? You are calling on Trump to come and save your democracy. Our democracy is not under threat. People went to court to challenge what you are doing. Then you think, as usual, impunity—let’s do it. We can’t continue that way,” he said.
Wike further noted that Turaki alleged an ongoing genocide in Nigeria with his comments; therefore, security agencies should invite him for clarification.
He concluded by saying that if he were the one who made such a statement, security agencies would have been calling for his head.
“You come out and make a statement on national television to say, look, it is not only killing — genocide against Christians.
In essence, you have come out to tell the world that what this government is doing is carrying out genocide against Christians. And where are the security agencies?
For somebody to make such a statement, you won’t invite them to come and say, ‘Maybe you know better; you have facts. Kindly give us so that we will know what to do.’ You don’t want to say anything. But if it is Wike— kill him!” he added.
