I can’t be intimidated – Senator Kingibe fires back at Wike

The Federal Capital Territory Senator, Ireti Kingibe, has fired backmost astatine the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, stating that she cannot beryllium intimidated by insults, threats oregon governmental pressure.

In a station connected her verified X grip connected Thursday, Senator Kingibe said her work arsenic a legislator representing the radical of the FCT is to inquire questions, request accountability and support the law principles upon which Nigeria’s ideology stands.

Her remark stemmed from Wike’s outburst, successful which helium described her arsenic illiterate and re-echoed his menace that the lawmaker would not beryllium elected to the Senate successful 2027.

The governmental combat betwixt them followed a remark by the senator, who, successful an interrogation connected nationalist television, accused Wike of obtaining a indebtedness for the FCT without the Senate’s approval.

The legislator besides dared Wike to amusement the radical of the FCT grounds of the National Assembly’s support for the loan.

“I person ne'er been 1 to beryllium intimidated by insults, threats oregon governmental pressure, and I volition not commencement now. My work arsenic a legislator representing the radical of the Federal Capital Territory is to inquire questions, request accountability and support the law principles upon which our ideology stands.

“If I rise questions astir nationalist borrowing, nationalist ...