We Made You Oyo Governor Despite Your $1 Million – Wike Hits Back At Seyi Makinde (Video)

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has revealed that he played a significant role in Seyi Makinde’s election as Governor of Oyo State in 2019.

Wike stated that Makinde became governor after he and some party leaders provided him with the PDP structure in Oyo State.

He made the disclosure during his end-of-the-year media chat in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, while reacting to Makinde’s claim of making $1 million when he was in law school.

Wike revealed that when he ran for the PDP’s presidential ticket, Makinde never contributed “N1000.”

He said: “I ran for the presidential primary of the PDP. I didn’t see Seyi use one thousand Naira in my primaries. I did not see it even once.

“Secondly, it’s only in Nigeria that I’ve seen someone awarded a job worth one million dollars, and nobody is talking about it.

“But he came to the man who didn’t have one million dollars to help him get structure. We said no, we will not give it to you. We gave it to Teslim. He went to SDP to run as governor and failed with his one million dollars.

“Then, before 2019, he came back. We said no, we are ready to give you structure. I was very grounded in politics, but I had no one million dollars with me.

“But the man who made one million dollars is going around looking for people to help him build a structure. It was when we gave him that structure that Seyi became governor in 2019.”

'He (Seyi Makinde) chose to be a contractor, and I chose to have power, and I have it,' Wike replies Makinde over comment that Wike was still in Law School when Makinde made his first $1M.

- Nyesom Wike, FCT Minister#CTVTweets pic.twitter.com/zMXNdFojJj

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