The Senior Particular Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, Lere Olayinka, has stated his principal is not going to dignify some hustlers masquerading as activists with any response.
Wike’s aide made this comment on Saturday in response to the current assault by Human rights lawyer, Deji Adeyanju amid the FCT demolition.
Talking in an announcement issued to newsmen, Olayinka stated Wike wouldn’t reply to these leaping from one social media platform to a different to talk in opposition to him, including that he is aware of the antics via which the activists have sustained themselves and won’t yield to it.
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He stated, “Whereas rising up as a baby within the hilly city of Okemesi Ekiti, one of many classes I realized from my grandfather was by no means to wrestle with pigs.
“He was always telling us that the hazard of wrestling with a pig will likely be that on the finish of the struggle, sane minds received’t have the ability to differentiate between you and the pig you fought with.
“Subsequently, as a matter of precept, we received’t dignify some folks with any response.
“That is extra in order that we all know how a sure emergency activist diverted election cash to buy a petroleum station. We all know how some so-called activists have fought themselves over protest cash, together with the one in 2019.
In 2016, after I was contesting for the Individuals’s Democratic Party (PDP) Nationwide Publicity Secretary, somebody approached me, telling me that there can be some huge cash to be made if I emerged.
“He stated all I wanted was for us to work collectively and that he can be the one to supply data for use to subject press statements in opposition to public workplace holders. His can be to strategy the general public officeholders involved and get cash out for us.
“Right now, that fellow is a type of parading themselves as activists. Subsequently, we received’t dignify them.
“The model of those hustlers masquerading as activists has all the time been the identical. They may threaten and blackmail you by making noise within the media or organizing protests in opposition to you.
“They would be the identical individuals who will organize for somebody to strategy you in order that the ‘activists’ might be reached and that they might help.
“The second you agree, they are going to come again with payments that it’s essential to pay, and when you pay, they transfer on to a different goal, typically, public workplace holders.
There are some whose space of core competence is to arrange press conferences for or in opposition to and receives a commission.
“Sadly for these hustler activists, Wike doesn’t play that type of recreation, and that’s the rationale they’re pissed off.
“Subsequently, for us, they are going to shout, shout and shout tyre, the Minister will preserve ignoring them and specializing in his jobs, supply of which might be seen throughout the FCT.”
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