Coalition: ‘Even Your People In Kwara Didn’t Trust You With Their Ticket’ – Wike’s Aide Fires Bolaji Abdullahi

The Senior Special Assistant to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, has carpeted the Interim Spokesperson of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, describing him as a desperate politician.

Olayinka, in a statement on Friday, said the greed and desperation for power of people like Abdullahi caused the misfortune of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Wike’s aide submitted that politicians in the opposition coalition who recently adopted the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as the platform to drive their 2027 ambition are simply a group of people desperate to achieve their selfish political ambitions.

He accused them of having no interest in the well-being of Nigeria and Nigerians.

Naija News reports Olayinka made the submission in response ti an earlier statement by Abdullahi, who, on Thursday, said Wike allowed himself to be used to destroy the PDP.

However, the Minister’s aide alleged that Abdullahi left the PDP in 2014 after falling out with his political mentor, Bukola Saraki.

He queried the political credentials of the new ADC spokesperson, who previously failed to clinch his party’s ticket for the governorship seat in Kwara and also for the senatorial seat of his constituency, describing it as a sign of rejection by his people.

He said, “As usual, in his deceitful manner, Abdullahi failed to mention that the political waka-about of himself and Atiku, his present emergency political leader contributed to the misfortune of the PDP. Or is it not on record that it was the political treachery of Atiku that frustrated the collective efforts of the PDP members in Lagos State to win the State in 2003?

“As a minister in the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, why did Abdullahi leave the PDP for the APC then? Was it because the government he was part of failed and Nigerians were angry?

“As National Publicity Secretary of the APC, did he leave the party in 2018 because of Wike or because he saw that his thirst for power could no longer be quenched in the party?

“When in 2019, Abdullahi ran unsuccessfully for nomination as the PDP governorship candidate in Kwara State, was it because Nigerians were angry? Even in 2023, that he got the PDP senatorial ticket, he still lost the election to his APC rival.

“If after serving as Special Assistant, Special Adviser and Commissioner in Kwara State and as Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the people of Kwara State could still not trust Abdullahi enough with the PDP governorship ticket and later a Senatorial mandate, it simply means that he is a political liability and this reality he must face.

“Therefore, methinks that he should stop being deceitful and tell Nigerians the truth as to his penchant for ‘Political Jumpology’, rather than the same rhetoric of ‘we want to rescue Nigeria.’

Describing the opposition coalition as a coalition of confusion, Olayinka said the members of the coalition, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Governor Nasir El-Rufai, former Senator Dino Melaye and others, are all frustrated politicians who want to return to power for selfish reasons.’

He, however, predicted failure for the coalition.

“Abdullahi also said their coalition is not just anti-Tinubu, but more focused on saving Nigeria’s democracy. Haba nah! What manner of lie is this?

“How can a gathering of people like Atiku Abubakar, a serial decampee whose boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo described as patently corrupt, Nasir El-Rufai, the promoter of body bag politics who as Governor of Kaduna State was busy going on his bended knees to pay terrorists, Hungry Rotimi Amaechi, under whom the judiciary in River State was shutdown for over one year, Dino Melaye, who couldn’t vote for himself in his own election, and other frustrated politicians be about saving democracy?

“Let Abdullahi and his coalition of confusion stop lying to Nigerians. They selfishly want power for themselves and their cronies, but too bad, they won’t get it,” Olayinka submitted.