2023: Ngige, other appointees should campaign publicly for Tinubu or resign – APC Chieftain
The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Murtala Yakubu Ajaka, has said that if the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, and other appointees could no longer protect the interest of the party and its Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, they should resign their appointments.
While reacting to Ngige’s comment on Channels TV concerning his choice of presidential candidate between Tinubu and Peter Obi, the APC chieftain on Saturday said that the minister has failed to publicly support Tinubu and the party.
The APC deputy spokesman said what the minister did was “anti-party.”
The Informant247 had reported that the Rivers State governor, Nysome Wike, had alleged that some appointees of the APC-led government were working for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
He said, “It is expected of a serving Minister in an APC government to be a trusted apostle of Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s presidency in 2023, who along other party leaders laboured to ensure the enthronement of the same government in 2015 which they are now serving in.
“Chief Ngige and other APC appointees, especially in the federal cabinet should not forget in a hurry that they are holding onto party’s mandate, hence the need to protect it with whatever it requires, but if they can no longer protect the interest of the APC in public and that of our presidential candidate (Tinubu), I think the honourable thing to do is to step aside from the government formed by the APC.”
