•Kingibe and Wike
The lawmaker representing FCT in the National Assembly, Senator Ireti Kingibe, has denied sponsoring the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protests in Abuja, amid an allegation by the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, that a serving senator was behind the ongoing hunger protests in Abuja.
A video had gone viral alleging that she was sponsoring the protest. But Senator Kingibe described it as “misinformation”, reports Channels TV.
“I am shocked and outraged by the blatant lies and misinformation being spread by mischief-makers! The video being circulated is from over six weeks ago, during a Labour Party NWC meeting when the NLC was protesting outside the Labour Party office,” she said on X.
“As stakeholders, including Senators, House of Reps members, and Mr. Peter Obi, we went out to engage with the protesters and address their concerns. Now, these deceitful individuals are trying to pass off this old footage as current, claiming that Mr Peter Obi and I were leading protests in Abuja yesterday. This is a malicious and desperate attempt to discredit us,” she said.
“Let me set the record straight: Mr. Peter Obi is not in Abuja, and I haven’t left my house since Wednesday due to illness, much less distributed food and water at the protest grounds, though that would be noble for whoever did. I condemn this orchestrated attempt to spread falsehoods and cause confusion, using it as the basis to claim I sponsored the Abuja protest.
“It is a shameless and irresponsible act that will not be tolerated. We will not stand idly by while our names and reputations are dragged through the mud by these unscrupulous individuals.”
The Frontier reports that Wike, had yesterday claimed that the hunger protests in Abuja was sponsored by a serving senator.
The former governor of Rivers State made the allegation after emerging from a meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the Villa, though he did not mention the name of the senator.
Wike asserted that the said senator would soon be invited for interrogation by security agencies.
