APC FCT Leaders Frowns at Wike Over Naming of PDP Members Mandate Secretaries
A call for the removal of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike has been made by a cross-section of the founding members of the All Progressives Congress over the appointment of mandate secretaries.
Making the call in Abuja on Wednesday, the FCT party excos kicked against the mandate secretaries appointed by the Minister noting that the ploy to reward the loyalists of the opposition party at the expense of the “Real Progressives” is dangerous and disservice to the APC.
“It is a highly disservice to the All Progressives Congress as a party and the leaders of the party who worked day and night for the party not to be rewarded with such appointment of magnitude but only for the Ministers to be rewarding People’s Democratic Party members with such appointment at the detriment of the real progressive,” the leaders who pleaded to remain anonymous said while reacting to the recent appointments made by the former Governor of Rivers State.
The Leaders said that the appointment of Wike as a minister representing Rivers State at the Federal Executive Council is not a license for him to see the Federal Capital Territory as a reward mechanism for his people without recourse to protect the interest of the party that honored him with such position.
The leaders went on to call on the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, His Excellency, Ganduje to please look into the deprivation and marginalization going on in FCT and redress it now before it gets out of hands.
The newly appointed Mandate secretaries , who are PDP card carrying members are Bitrus( Area Council Services Secretariat), Lawal Kole Geidman (Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat) Danlami Ihayyo(Education) Dr.Adedolapo Fasawe(Health and Human Services Secretariat) others are Barrister Salama Dako (Legal Services Secretariat) Barrister Chinedum Elechi (Economic Planning Revenue Generation and PPP) and Arch Uboku Tom Nyah( Transportation).
According to them, the newly appointed mandate secretaries must be suspended with immediate effect to give room for real party members who are more capable to assume the roles.
They said unanimously that if no action is taken by the president and the party to redress the injustice meted at the party’s actors they won’t mind to demonstrate openly expressing their grievance and the injustice.
