Harrison EDEH
THE Minister of the Federal Capital Territory,Nyesom Wike has mocked the opposition unity talks in their recent meeting held in Abuja taunting them over poor alliance talks.
Wike also queried the conspicuous absence of the Presidential candidate of National Democratic Congress (NDC), Peter Obi and All Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
The minister said this during his monthly media chat held in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, September 2 which was monitored by our correspondent.
“Where’s the opposition party?Do they look like people who really wanted to context elections.If you’re in opposition,you have to put your house in order to challenge the ruling party.
“I have said it before that this is the election where the President would walk straight to his victory without pressure,”he added.
Wike also expressed optimism over President Bola Ahmed capacity to win in the 2027 elections polls without much headache.
Speaking on his support for the President despite being in the opposition,Wike said,”I have never hidden my position from the begining.I supported the President in 2023 and supported the emergence of a PDP governor in Rivers State.”
Advocate Times reports that the G100 in their last meeting held on Monday, August 31, in Abuja has proposed a ‘Government of National Competence’ anchored on a single four-year transition term, as part of a broader framework for cooperation among Nigeria’s opposition political parties.
This was contained in opening remarks delivered on behalf of the G100 by Salihu Lukman at the Summit of Nigeria’s Opposition Political Parties held recently at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, and attended by representatives of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) and Social Democratic Party (SDP), alongside their presidential and vice-presidential candidates, and the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives.
It would be noted that as the event got underway, among presidential candidates and their vice,only the presidential candidates of the Social Democratic Party SDP, Prince Adebayo Adewole; his counterpart in the People’s Redemption Party PRP, Donald Duke; vice presidential candidate of the Allied People’s Movement APM, Lawal Daura were around.
Candidates of the ADC, Atiku Abubakar and NDC, Peter Obi were still being expected.
Lukman said the proposed government would be built on competence, integrity, national inclusion and fair representation of every party contributing to the effort, and would be bound to a disciplined, time-bound Four-Year National Reset Programme.
“The Framework before you propose something more demanding than a merger of ambitions: a Government of National Competence, built on competence, integrity, national inclusion, and fair representation of every party that contributes to the effort,” he said, adding that such a government should be “secured by a political commitment to a single four-year term, written into an enforceable Transition Charter.”
He stressed that the commitment must go beyond verbal assurances. “We want to underline the word ‘enforceable.’ This gathering does not need more sincerity. Nigerian politics has never suffered from a shortage of sincere promises. What it has suffered from is promises that nobody could enforce when the person who made them changed his/her mind,” he said, insisting that any agreement reached “must be written, it must be witnessed, and it must have consequences.”
