Wike destroyed PDP, not in position to talk about ‘character’ – Abati

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Reuben Abati, seasoned journalist and former media adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has criticized the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, for making disparaging remarks about political figures like Peter Obi, Goodluck Jonathan, and Nasir El-Rufai.

Abati argued that Wike lacks the moral authority to speak in such a careless and unrefined manner about others and should instead reflect on his own conduct.

The criticism came during Tuesday’s edition of the Morning Show on Arise TV, where Abati serves as the lead anchor.

His comments follow remarks made by Wike during his monthly press briefing in Abuja on Monday, where the minister mockingly dismissed the idea of Peter Obi returning to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Wike also advised former President Jonathan not to consider running for office in the 2027 presidential election.

In response, Abati contended that Wike has no right to influence the future of the PDP, especially when, in his words, the minister appears to have already aligned himself with another political party.

He said: “Now he is saying that if Mr Peter Obi comes back to the PDP, the PDP will be destroyed, because Peter Obi doesn’t have the character having condemned PDP as a rotten party to come back to the PDP.

“Wike is not in a position to talk about character. Okay, he is not the one to talk about character. In fact, if he talks about character, he should question his own character.

“I don’t know why people have problems with basic intelligence and decorum. He goes on television, and he says, you know, ‘Peter Obi doesn’t have character. Peter Obi left PDP and went to Labor Party, now he’s in ADC’. In fact, it is Wike himself that destroyed the party.

“And he also says, ‘President Jonathan should not come back, come and run on the platform of the PDP because he’s a statesman and all of that’. He’s not in a position to advise President Jonathan just as he has made it clear that nobody can advise him.

“Who is he to determine the destiny of the Peoples Democratic Party when he is already in another political party? I blame the media. The media gives him platform to disparage other political opponents.

“Yesterday, was talking about Peter Obi. He was talking about President Jonathan.

He was talking about Nasir El-Rufai. What gives him that moral high ground to talk recklessly and unintelligently? Because the media, what is the media looking for? The the media, they are the ones who go to interviewing. They are the ones who collect money to put him on the air.

“If he’s talking about the FCT, yes, fine. But if it’s disparaging all that political opponents, the media has an obligation to give all the other persons that have been disparaged to have a right of reply.

“So we should not create a situation whereby, for monetary reasons, the Nigerian media is sucking up to a minister of the Federal Republic, who, in my view, is overreaching himself.”

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