Posting on Facebook, Olayinka recalled how Wike stayed back in Rivers State to help Amaechi retrieve his mandate after he ran to Ghana in 2007.
Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike has thrown a challenge at former presidential spokesman Reuben Abati.
In a post on his Facebook on Tuesday, he challenged Abati to prove that Amaechi is Wike's boss in politics.
Abati had claimed that Wike was very rude, stressing that former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi was his boss in politics.
The Arise Television anchor was reacting to Wike’s remark that Amaechi was hungry for power and could not deliver 10 percent of the vote for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 presidential election.
Abati said: “Wike is very rude and disrespectful because Amaechi is his boss in politics. When he was local government chairman during Amaechi’s second term, it was Amaechi who helped him to become LGA Chairman and subsequently became Chief of Staff and recommended him to become Minister of State for Education in Abuja.”
Responding, Olayinka wondered how Amaechi became Wike’s boss in politics.
Posting on Facebook, Olayinka recalled how Wike stayed back in Rivers State to help Amaechi retrieve his mandate after he ran to Ghana in 2007.
According to Olayinka: “I listened to Egbon @abati1990 on Arise News this morning, saying the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, is very rude and disrespectful because Rotimi Amaechi is his boss in politics.
“If we talk now, they will say we don’t respect elders. The same Reuben Abati, who was comfortable being on campaign podium as running mate to a fugitive who was wanted in America, will be forming Moral Police inside Arise TV studio.
“Reuben Abati, a POLITICIAN who has a clear political affiliation, will be forming objectivity, just like @ruffydfire, a supporter of Labour Party.
“So how is Rotimi Amaechi Wike’s boss in politics? When Amaechi was a House of Assembly member, Wike was a Local Government Chairman.
“When Amaechi ran to Ghana in 2007, Wike was in Nigeria, leading the charge to retrieve Amaechi’s mandate. But I will still not talk.”