Amaechi: Abati was governorship running mate to drug trafficker wanted in US – Wike’s aide

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Former presidential candidate Reuben Abati was accused of hypocrisy on Friday by Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike.

Olayinka said that Abati was formerly a wanted drug lord’s running mate for the governorship.

In 2019, Abati was chosen as the running mate of the late Buruji Kashamu, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate for governor of Ogun State.

Kashamu was wanted by the US government for narcotics trafficking before he passed away.

Olayinka, however, chastised Abati for presenting himself on national television as a moral police officer.

After the Minister’s remark on former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi, Olayinka criticized Abati for calling Wike impolite.

Speaking on the Morning Show on Arise Television, Olayinka stated: “Abati has always come to this station to present himself as a moral police to postulate and he will not one day tell us that at a moment in his life, he was a politician – a member of the PDP and was the party’s deputy governorship candidate in Ogun State and was comfortable having his picture displayed with somebody who was wanted by the American government for alleged drug trafficking.

“He was comfortable on the podium with somebody wanted by the American government for alleged drug trafficking.

“That is the person that will come here and pronounce with his mouth that a former governor and Minister that he once ran to for help is a rude person, he is a bully.”

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