FCT Minister Nyesom Wike has staunchly defended renaming Abuja’s International Conference Centre after President Bola Tinubu, calling it a “well-deserved honour” during Thursday’s commissioning of the completed Apo-Wassa road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“If Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport wasn’t built by Azikiwe, and Moshood Abiola Stadium wasn’t built by Abiola, what’s wrong in naming the ICC after a President delivering results?” Wike challenged critics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The minister highlighted the 15km road project – abandoned since 2017 but completed under this administration – as evidence of Tinubu’s impact: “President Tinubu said no more abandoned projects, not under my watch.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wike dismissed detractors, saying: “There are people who choose to be blind to progress. If you won’t see, then be blind. I will defend my boss. If you’re unhappy, stay angry – but Abuja is moving forward.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senate President Godswill Akpabio, commissioning another road project, reinforced the message: “Nobody will remember you for answering critics, but for legacies left behind.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FCT Minister Nyesom Wike has staunchly defended renaming Abuja’s International Conference Centre after President Bola Tinubu, calling it a “well-deserved honour” during Thursday’s commissioning of the completed Apo-Wassa road. “If Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport wasn’t built by Azikiwe, and Moshood Abiola Stadium wasn’t built by Abiola, what’s wrong in naming the ICC after a President delivering results?” Wike challenged critics. The minister highlighted the 15km road project – abandoned since 2017 but completed under this administration – as evidence of Tinubu’s impact: “President Tinubu said no more abandoned projects, not under my watch.” Wike dismissed detractors, saying: “There are people who choose to be blind to progress. If you won’t see, then be blind. I will defend my boss. If you’re unhappy, stay angry – but Abuja is moving forward.” Senate President Godswill Akpabio, commissioning another road project, reinforced the message: “Nobody will remember you for answering critics, but for legacies left behind.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25700,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25698\/revisions\/25700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}