ABUJA: Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Nyesom Wike, has strongly refuted accusations of political betrayal, defending his decision to serve in President Bola Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress APC administration while retaining his membership of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP.
During a media parley on Monday in Abuja, an interviewer had described the minister’s political strategy as having one leg in the PDP and another in the APC.
Wike took issues with the interviewer who compared him to the two-faced Roman god, Janus, a symbol of duality.
He dismissed the comparison, insisting that his actions have been transparent and consistent from the start.
He stated that he never hid his opposition to the PDP’s presidential campaign, openly withdrawing his support.
“I am not double-faced. I take very serious exceptions to that,” Wike said.
“They could not say they saw me in their campaigns, that I spoke in their favour and then I went and did a different thing.”
He explained that after he withdrew his support from the PDP, he had to choose between the two other viable parties, the APC and the Labour Party LP.
Wike said he ultimately supported Tinubu because he believed the APC candidate “had the capacity to take Nigeria away from where we were.”
To further justify his position, Wike cited the late Chief Bola Ige, a prominent politician who was a member of the defunct Alliance for Democracy AD while serving in the PDP administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo.
“So, did Bola Ige have a double face?” He queried the interviewer.
