APC Deputy spokesman has asked Ngige to resign if he can’t support Tinubu’s presidential bid in the 2023 election.
Eko Hot Blog reports that Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Murtala Ajaka, has said Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, should resign if he cannot support the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
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He was reacting to remarks made by Ngige when he appeared on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television on Friday.
The minister had said it was “difficult” for him to publicly name his preferred candidate because Tinubu and Peter Obi, the flagbearer of the Labour Party, are his friends. He also noted that his focus was on governance, not politics.
In a statement on Saturday, Ajaka criticised Ngige over the comments.
The APC deputy spokesman said it was expected of a serving minister in an APC government to market Tinubu’s candidacy.
He, therefore, called on APC appointees in the federal cabinet to resign if they can no longer protect the interest of the APC in public.
“The presidential primary election had long ended and the party had settled for the choice of Senator Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, hence all the party leaders should put their ambitions behind them for now to deliver the party’s presidential ticket,” Ajaka said.
“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 enthronement 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 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.
“With this type of public comment 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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Ngige is a former presidential aspirant.
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