Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has fired back at Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, accusing him and his allies of wrecking the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) through “greed and desperation for power.”
Olayinka, in a statement on Friday, dismissed Abdullahi’s claim that Wike ruined the PDP, describing it as dishonest and hypocritical.
“People like Bolaji Abdullahi, driven by selfish ambition and political greed, are the reason the PDP lost its way not Wike,” Olayinka said.
He challenged Abdullahi to explain why he defected from the PDP back in 2014 long before Wike became Minister.
“Is it Wike who made him leave the PDP when he fell out with Senator Bukola Saraki the same man who lifted him from Special Assistant to a Minister? As Minister under President Jonathan, why did he abandon the PDP for the APC? Was it Wike who pushed him then too?”
Olayinka accused Abdullahi of conveniently ignoring his own record of “political waka-about” and Atiku Abubakar’s role in frustrating the PDP’s efforts to win Lagos State in 2003.
“He won’t say it, but everyone knows it was Atiku’s treachery that cost the PDP Lagos. Now they are pretending to be saviours of democracy,” he said.
Mocking Abdullahi’s electoral failures, Olayinka said, “Despite serving as Special Assistant, Commissioner, Minister, and even getting the PDP Senate ticket in 2023, he still lost to his APC rival. If your own people can’t trust you with a governorship ticket or Senate seat, then you are a political liability, plain and simple.”
He described the so-called opposition coalition as a gathering of “serial decampees and frustrated politicians” only seeking power for personal gain.
“How can they claim they want to save democracy when their frontmen include Atiku, whom Obasanjo called patently corrupt; El-Rufai, who bent the knee to pay terrorists; Rotimi Amaechi, under whom the Rivers judiciary was shut for over a year; and Dino Melaye, who couldn’t even vote for himself? Nigerians can see through the lies,” he stated.
Olayinka urged Abdullahi and his group to stop “deceiving Nigerians with rescue slogans” and admit their only mission is to grab power for themselves and their cronies.
“They are desperate and hungry for power but too bad for them, they won’t get it,” Olayinka concluded.
