Ministerial list: Sad for original indigenes – Omokri on Tinubu appointing Wike FCT Minister

Ministerial list: Sad for original indigenes – Omokri on Tinubu appointing Wike FCT Minister

 A strong supporter of Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, Reno Omokri has reacted to the appointment of former Rivers
State governor, Nyesome Wike as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

 

Recall that Wike was on Wednesday named Minister of FCT by
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

 

However, Omokri believes Wike’s appointment will be sad for
the original indigenes of FCT, who according to him have never been appointed
Minister.

 

According to him, Wike’s appointment marks the first time a
Southerner has been appointed FCT Minister since Mobolaji Ajose-Adeogun was
appointed to that position in 1976.

 

In a tweet via his Twitter handle, Omokri wrote, “The
appointment by President Bola Tinubu of ex-Governor Nyesom Wike as Minister of
the Federal Capital Territory will mark the first time a Southerner has been
appointed FCT Minister since Mobolaji Ajose-Adeogun was appointed to that
position in 1976 by the then Head of State, General Olusegun Obasanjo.

 

“It has taken forty-seven years for a non-Northerner to
occupy that position again and coincidentally, just like in 1976, the person
was appointed by a fellow Southerner.

 

“Sadly, the original indigenous [people] of the area now
known as the Federal Capital Territory have never been appointed minister.
Hopes had been high that the President would appoint the first FCT indigene
ever nominated as a minister, Zephaniah Jisalo, to that position. But we have
seen the way the cookie crumbled.”

Source: Ministerial list: Sad for original indigenes – Omokri on Tinubu appointing Wike FCT Minister

 - NigerianEye

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