Wike insists Onaiyekan was partisan in 2023 election

By Omeiza Ajayi
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has said the Archbishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, was not neutral during the 2023 general election, dismissing suggestions that the cleric’s recent criticisms of the Presidency were impartial.
Wike spoke on Tuesday at his monthly media parley monitored in Abuja, while reacting to the storm that followed Onaiyekan’s remarks after a meeting between President Bola Tinubu and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN).
The Cardinal had said in an interview that those around Tinubu were painting a “rosy picture” of the country for him, and that the President ...