Senator Ireti Kingibe: I’m Willing To Work with Wike If He Apologizes For His Offensive Comment

Senator Ireti Kingibe: I’m Willing To Work with Wike If He Apologizes For His Offensive Comment

The Senator representing the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Ireti Kingibe, has demanded an apology from the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, over his comments threatening to unseat her as an FCT senator in 2027.

Ireporteronline reports that Kingibe and Wike have been at loggerheads since they assumed their respective offices and have lashed out at each other on various occasions.

On July 1, Wike, who spoke at the flag-off ceremony of the construction of the Mabushi Bus Terminal in Abuja, argued that Kinigibe has not done well since coming into office.

Wike also told the Labour Party (LP) chieftain to hang herself on a transformer if she was unhappy with his performance in FCT.

In an interview on Channels Television’s Political Paradigm, Kinigibe stated that Wike does not understand the concept of leadership in FCT, and courtesy demands that the Minister should not speak to her in such a manner.

The LP Senator said Wike should apologise to her so that she could put everything that had happened between them in the past.

She said, “He doesn’t obviously understand the concept of the FCT. If he did, it is nothing personal. He says, ‘I don’t want to be her friend.’ How does governance translate into friendship?

“I’m actually willing to do doing everything to work with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory as long as he apologises first for saying I should go and hang on a transformer.

“Once he does that, it is all over. We can start afresh but until then, everybody stays in your lane. With all due respect, I am so much older than him. Even courtesy demands he should not speak to me like that.”