The verbal clash between Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, and the camp of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr Nyesom Wike, intensified yesterday after Wike’s aide described Obi as a politician without a clear path to the 2027 presidency.
Reacting to Obi’s recent criticism of the poor state of public schools in the FCT, Wike’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, accused the former Anambra governor of seeking media attention instead of addressing what he called his “fading political relevance.”
Olayinka said Obi had become a “political wanderer” without a stable platform, describing him as an “Internally Displaced Politician.” He questioned whether any party would still offer Obi a presidential ticket “simply because he repeats the one-shoe, one-wristwatch story.”
Defending the FCT administration, Olayinka said Wike was focused on “real and verifiable development,” citing the renovation of 73 schools across the six area councils and completion of 21, in contrast to what he termed Obi’s “beer parlour style of governance” in Anambra State.
