Where Was Wike In 1999? Top PDP Leader Reveals What Will Happen To Wike, Tinubu Amid New Plot

Former Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has accused President Bola Tinubu of using Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to weaken the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Wike, who previously served as the governor of Rivers State and is a key figure in the PDP, is currently serving under the Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.

In an interview with the Nigerian Tribune, Lamido, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, said, “Wike is our creation, we made him. Where was Wike in 1999? Somebody who was your own invention, whom you thought you could develop, groom as a future leader now tells you that he is his own person now, what do you do?”

Lamido dismissed Wike’s significance, saying, “To me, Wike is not a factor. If Tinubu is not tolerating him, who is Wike? So, Wike is there today because the environment is there for him to manipulate and exploit. Simple.”

He further claimed that Tinubu is elevating Wike to harm the PDP, but in doing so, both Tinubu and Wike are endangering their own political futures. “Wike is being hyped by Tinubu to destroy the PDP, but destroying the PDP also means destroying Tinubu,” Lamido asserted.

Lamido predicted that Wike and Tinubu would eventually clash, leading to mutual losses. “Ultimately, he will become a political orphan to Tinubu, and both of them are going to lose because the entire arrangement is unholy; it is immoral, it is un-Nigerian.”

He criticized Wike’s actions as a betrayal of his party, stating, “This issue of betrayal, undermining your party isn’t part of our culture. No matter how long he serves Tinubu, ultimately, both of them are going to lose because the country is losing. So, Wike was never planted. He was simply identified, he is a willing character who lacks the morality and the good character and honor not to disown his own party. He has mortgaged his own party.”