Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr Nyesom Wike, on Monday called on the People’s Democratic Party chieftain, Chief Bode George, to sit down at home and read newspapers if he does not have job.
Wike, a former two-term Governor of Rivers State, made the remarks while answering questions from Journalists during his monthly media chat in Abuja.
Reacting to Mr George’s criticism of him over the sealing of the PDP National Secretariat in Abuja, he said neither he nor any members of the party could pay the ground rent because the property was not registered in their names.
“I cannot pay because, first of all, it is not in my name,” he said. “They cannot pay because the property is not in their name.”
According to the Minister, he made the PDP a major political force both at the state and national levels, while the party has repeatedly failed in the PDP Board of Trustees member’s own state of Lagos.
He also dismissed Mr George’s claim that the PDP made him, saying it is untrue because he makes the party win election.
“If an elderly man has no job, he should sit at home and read his newspapers,” he added.
“Bode George said PDP made me by giving me a national profile, and I agree. But the party does not make you; you are the one who makes the party win elections.
“Ask Bode George who PDP has made popular in Lagos since 1999? You are speaking to me, someone who has laboured and campaigned for the party to become the major political force at both state and national levels.
“Meanwhile, in his state, the party has been struggling daily. Even when Jonathan was in power, we knew what we did for PDP to take over power, but it did not succeed.”
