VIDEO: Obi flees from struggles, likes ‘Mama Put’ politics – Wike

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has criticised former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi, describing his political style as opportunistic and lacking the resilience required for true national leadership. Wike, who spoke during an interview with Arise TV on Monday, claimed that Obi, who emerged as the Nigeria Democratic Congress’s presidential candidate for the 2027 election after defecting from LP, consistently flees from political struggles, preferring to position himself only where victories are easily handed over. Wike made the remarks during an interview with Arise TV on Monday while reacting to perceptions about Obi’s leadership style Wike said, “Peter Obi likes ‘food is ready,’ ‘Mama put.’ I don’t want struggling. “Look, this country has challenges. You must have the capacity to face those challenges. It’s not when you have one problem, you say, ‘Oh, this problem is too much, let me move to so-and-so place.’ That is not leadership. Leadership is not about having something dashed to you.” Wike drew a contrast between Obi’s political movements and his own controversial decision to remain within the Peoples Democratic Party despite internal friction. “You saw in PDP. I said, I will not leave this party. They had money. Yes. But it’s not money. I said I was not going to leave. Rather, you will leave. Have I left? Have they not left? “It’s challenging. Face the challenges you have. That’s what makes you a leader. That’s what makes you a man. Leadership is not dashing you something. That’s not leadership,” Wike said. The former Rivers State Governor also addressed the heavy pushback he received upon assuming office as FCT Minister, saying, “When I came here as a minister, there’s no abuse I did not get. ‘You think here is Port Harcourt, you can’t do it in Abuja.’ I say it will be done. I’m doing it. Heaven will not fall. In fact, heaven is at peace now.” Pivoting to the national economic landscape, Wike praised President Bola Tinubu for possessing the executive spine to enforce reforms, specifically the removal of the petrol subsidy, which he described as cancerous. “Look at what the president is doing. We have had governments that have come. Everybody has noticed that this subsidy was a cancer. There’s no government that has never identified that. Every government, what did you do after identifying this?” Wike questioned. “That’s where leadership now comes in. This government came and said, ‘This is a problem, we must solve this problem. How do I solve this problem? I must do this,’ and he did it. “There are suffer