Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has launched an attack on the opposition, declaring that any political platform or alliance presenting a joint ticket of compromised figures for the 2027 general election is offering Nigerians a “joint ticket of corruption.”
Wike said the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Rotimi Amaechi, have failed Nigerians.
He spoke yesterday during a high-powered political engagement at a Town Hall interactive meetings with Rumueme and Apara kingdoms in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area Rivers State.
The former Rivers State governor said such a desperate coalition stood no chance of securing the mandatory 25 per cent constitutional vote share in strategic states like Rivers, dismissing their electoral value as empty posturing built on a foundation of unmitigated graft.
Weaving his trademark fiery rhetoric with a reminder of past administrative records, Wike referenced the damning verdict passed on former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar by his principal, former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He noted that a candidate whose monumental corruption baggage was unmasked and catalogued by no less a figure than his former boss could hardly lay claim to moral integrity.
