Minister of Labour and Employment Chris Ngige has kept sealed lips who to support between All Progressive Congress’ Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Labour Party’s Peter Obi in the upcoming 2023 presidential elections.
Ngige, a member of the APC said it was a tough choice for him and he would prefer to maintain his silence. But now the APC has asked Ngige and other APC members who are yet to declare their support for Tinubu to speak or they should rather quit whatever position they occupy in the APC government.
Murtala Ajaka who is APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary said in a statement: “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 the 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 a presidential candidate, how on earth is the party expected to fare in the forthcoming presidential election?”
