The claim that Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike was arrested in France has drawn his response.
The report which was recently in circulation was dismissed by the minister while speaking to newsmen after inspecting ongoing road projects in Abuja.
“People would like to distract you. But the moment you are focused, you know what you are doing, you will not be perturbed.
“Last time they said I was sick and flown overseas. This time, they said I was arrested in France. I’m doing my job,” Wike declared.
Friday’s defections of the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly and 15 lawmakers from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) also got him talking: “It’s unfortunate. I have always said everybody has the right to make a choice. The party is fully factionalized. And the Constitution requires that when a party is factionalized, members are allowed to leave.
“I’m still in the PDP. You will see that it’s not everybody who has left. I believe 16 or 17 of them have left out of 27. We still have a good number, about 10, and we will continue to work together.”
