By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor
He came into the office of the FCT Minister as an unsung hero but opted to remain calm and embellish his true colour and character for some time. For others, all they knew and chanted about Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, was that he had been a two-time governor of Rivers State, a one-time Minister of State for Education and a two-term chairman of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State between 1999 and 2007 before being appointed as the Chief of Staff to the Rivers State Governor. For that reason, not many believed in his ability to deliver in that strategic office. In fact, many had expected Wike to just occupy the space as a nominal representative of the South-South since the office of the FCT minister has often gone to one part of the country as an unwritten tradition.
Thus, as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced Nyesom Wike as his pick for the FCT in 2023, many Nigerians queried why he was making such a ‘queer’ appointment into such a crucial office that should be reserved for only proven technocrat or renown engineers and planners. Indeed, Wike wasn’t highly rated when he was appointed into that critical office and not many gave him any chance of success, given his alleged ‘limitation’ as a vociferous politician, who cares more about political success than physical transformation.
