Senator representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Ireti Kingibe, has stated that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, is autocratic, accusing him of ruling the nation’s capital with complete disregard for the law.
Naijaonpoint reports that the FCT lawmaker, during an interview on ARISE NEWS on Monday, said her conflict with Wike stems from his alleged autocratic leadership and consistent violation of constitutional procedures.
She expressed concerns about Wike’s reintroduction of certain agencies without enabling laws.
Kingibe also stated that Wike revoked most of the land allocated to the University of Abuja, stressing that the Minister’s leadership style has led to job losses and widespread dissatisfaction among residents.
She said, “The primary thing is that the minister doesn’t obey the rule of law. He’s autocratic. He doesn’t follow any rules or any laws. And when you try to draw his attention that governance is based on laws, the rule of law, he doesn’t accept that.
“Minister Nyesom Wike has brought back agencies without the enabling laws. If he wants these things, he should ask the National Assembly to create the enabling laws. But he doesn’t, because he’s just autocratic. He feels, I can do anything.
“Abuja University had approximately 11,000 hectares. Minister Wike has revoked 7,000 of it and left them with four. It is definitely against the Land Use Act for you to take land from institutions to give them to individuals.
“Every minister has come and found the streets being cleaned by indigent women. Even when some ministers come and want to bring mechanical street sweepers, we say, no, this is a source of livelihood for our indigent women, widows and other underprivileged women. He comes, he’s fired them all… Then he doesn’t replace them with mechanical street sweepers. So Abuja is looking dirty.”