Wike Livid At ‘Haggard’ Former Aide Who Called Him A Thug

Nyesom Wike was livid against John Bazia, a former commissioner in his cabinet, who called him a thug on live television.

A livid Wike fuming described Bazia who recently defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC as haggard who allegedly stole kola meant for traditional rulers and the clergy while he served in his government.

Wike mocked the former commissioner for serving a ‘thug’ and only discovering that he, Wike was a thug when he failed to appoint him for a second term.

Bazia served in Wike’s first cabinet as Commissioner for Chieftaincy and Community Affairs. Following his failure to make it back to the cabinet in the second term, Bazia defected to the APC.

Appearing on Channels Television programme, Politics Today, Bazia had said that Wike was unfit for public office.

He said: “The governor, Wike, I must tell you (that) all those who are with him, they know what they are going through. But you have been seeing him on TV and the way he has been behaving in Nigeria. Sometimes, you will be baffled if that is an enlightened and educated mind; the way he carries himself. He forgets that he holds the exalted position, the office of the governor. He behaves like a thug…”

Asked by the anchor, Seun Okinbaloye, to respond, Wike was livid, first at the anchor for the question and then subsequently went for the jugular of the former commissioner.

“You sit down there and somebody who said I appointed him had the temerity, the audacity to say I behave like a thug, and you are asking me that question to react to what somebody I appointed said.

“However, let me tell you: look at him talking now. When he was commissioner, did he look that haggard? A thug appointed you commissioner; you never knew that he was a thug but he appointed you a commissioner. So, only when he removed you that you then know that he behaves like a thug. You did not resign, you were working with a thug all the while until when the thug did not bring you back as a commissioner you then realised that he behaves like a thug.

“Now, look at the kind of characters we have and these are the kinds of people that you want me to respond to: somebody who stole the ‘kola’ of traditional rulers and up till now, he has not gone to court to challenge our saying (allegation) that he stole ‘kola’ given to traditional rulers and clergymen.

“Why did he not resign when he was commissioner? When I won my second tenure, he was lobbying that I was going to bring him back, but when I appointed another commissioner from his Local Government Area, he knew that he would not come back.”

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