Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike,
has replied Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, stressing that the court has not
declared the Rivers State local government election illegal.
Atiku and Obi had in separate statements described the
exercise as unlawful.
Wike, while speaking during a media parley on Monday, said
the polls were legally conducted and commended by many for being free and fair.
“Listen, I don’t blame Atiku; he didn’t know that his boss
signed the emergency rule in 2004. If he knew, if he was obedient and working
along with his boss, who was President Olusegun Obasanjo, he would have known
that the President has the power to make regulations for the governance of
emergency areas.
“So, he was not in tune. He doesn’t know, and as I said,
what you don’t know, don’t comment about it. If Atiku had comments about
Customs, I know he has worked in Customs. I can give it to him, but this is
law.”
The minister added that Obi lacked the moral right to speak
about the conduct of elections.
“Now take Peter Obi. He said rascality. Who can be more [of
a] rascal than Obi? Obi was the governor of Anambra State for eight years. He
conducted local government elections two months before he left office — eight
years as governor.”
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