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admin Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike yesterday vowed to unseat Senator Ireti Kingibe (FCT).
He spoke at the inauguration of the construction of Mabushi Bus Terminal in Abuja.
Wike, who did not mention the lawmaker, warned her to stop criticising his successes as FCT minister.
Senator Kingibe from the Labour Party appeared on Arise TV yesterday, complaining that she was being sidelined in the running of the FCT.
Kingibe particularly claimed that her constituency was being marginalised, saying there was no clean water for Abuja residents.
She also said roads being built across the FCT were not addressing the needs of the majority of the people, namely healthcare, water, education and security.
But Wike said he overheard ‘somebody, a lawmaker in the National Assembly on Arise TV in the morning, castigating the successes being recorded in FCT’.
According to him, the lawmaker particularly criticised the rot in schools and the absence of quality hospitals in the territory.
He added: “You, as a legislator, what have you done? How many bills have you sponsored for us to improve our education and health sector? I challenge that legislator. If you are very popular, come out in 2027 come and run under Abuja, we will fail you. Do you think what happened last time will happen again? It will not happen again.
“Luckily for me, I am the FCT Minister now. So that is my territory and I’m not afraid. With all due respect, what you don’t know, you don’t know, what you know, you know. The good thing for you is to tell people you don’t know when you don’t know, then people will educate you.
“The Minister of State, Dr Mariya Mahmoud and myself have not been in office for more than 11 months and the person is angry that people are praising us. If you don’t want or you are angry about that, go and hang yourself on a transformer.
“If we have done well; we have done well. If we haven’t done well; we haven’t done well. I’m proud to say that in the short time that President Tinubu has appointed us, we have done well.”
