I was at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre, Area 11, Garki, Abuja, on Friday night for the special thanksgiving banquet organised to celebrate the successful inauguration of 31 projects across the Federal Capital Territory as part of activities marking the third anniversary of the present administration. Speaking through the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, President Bola Tinubu declared the current FCT Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike, the best minister so far in the 50-year existence of the territory.
Minutes earlier, the Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, spoke through Dr Aliyu Modibo, who had served as FCT Minister between 2007 and 2008, and is currently the Special Adviser to the President on General Duties in the office of the Vice President, informed the audience that he had VP’s permission to do “a peer review of all the past and present FCT ministers” at the occasion.
His verdict was clear: the incumbent is “one of the best three ministers” in the history of the administration of the 8,000 square kilometre territory. He named the three as Air Vice Marshal Hamza Abdullahi, Major General Muhammadu Gado Nasko and the incumbent, Barrister Nyeson Wike.
