Ngige Under Pressure Over Alleged Anti-Tinubu Position

Senator Chris Ngige was on Saturday coming under pressure over alleged anti-party activities after he failed to publicly proclaim support for the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in a national television programme.

GWG.NG reports that asked on his inclination ahead of the 2023 General Election on a Channels Television programme, Politics Today on Friday night, Ngige had said:

“My choice will be in the ballot box. On the day of ballot I will make my choice. I won’t tell Nigerians what I will do secretly”.

However, the APC’s deputy national publicity secretary, Alhaji Murtala Ajaka was having none of it at the weekend as he led the charge on Ngige to make public his inclination or step down from his APC appointment as a minister.

“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 enthroment 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 the 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,” he said in bringing pressure on Ngige over his suspected stance in being anti-Tinubu.

According to Ajaka, if such trend is allowed to continue among the appointees and party leaders, it is capable of generating bad blood among APC rank and file.

While calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to call his cabinet members to order and obtain their commitments to delivering APC in 2023, Ajaka wondered that “with this type of public comments from a sitting minister in a ruling party who cannot declare on national television his choice of presidential candidate, how on earth is the party expected to fare in the forthcoming presidential election?

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