By Charles Igbo
Ifeanyi Ejiofor, a Lawyer, has Urged President Bola Tinubu to stop the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wke, from wasting Nigeria’s money on his Monthly Media Chats.
Wike is the only Federal Minister who holds Media Chats, monthly, almost. The Media Chats are usually streamed live on National Televisions. Such live events do not come cheap. They run in hundreds of millions of Naira. Air time does not come cheap.
Putting all that together, especially, in times of hardship, Ejiofor asked
Tinubu to halt the wasteful Monthly Media Chat, and ask his Minister to focus Focus on service delivery.
“It is wasteful and extravagant”, he posited.
In a press statement he released, Ejiofor insisted that Wike’s Monthly Media Chats was of no use except for the purpose of wasting public funds and offer the Minister an “opportunity to grandstand on national issues.”
Ejiofor lamented the “unconscionable waste coming in the face of millions of Nigerians battling record inflation, stagnant wages, and deepening poverty, describing it as an exercise that offers little substance and reeks of misplaced priorities.”
The statement reads in part:
“As millions of Nigerians battle record inflation, stagnant wages, and deepening poverty, it is unconscionable that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, reportedly spends hundreds of millions of naira monthly on an ostentatious media chat – an exercise that offers little substance and reeks of misplaced priorities.
“Framed as a public engagement, this monthly spectacle is anything but a tone-deaf misuse of public funds – especially in a country where many survive on less than $2 a day, and access to basic healthcare, education, and shelter remains a daily struggle.
“To illustrate the waste: The cost of one media edition could fund emergency relief and shelter for thousands displaced by the recent floods in Niger State. It could refurbish crumbling primary schools, equip rural clinics, or sustain nutrition programs in IDP camps for several months.
“The optics are disheartening. The implications are worse. Nigerians are not asking for a televised circus – Nigerians are crying out for competent governance, prudent spending, and people-centred leadership.
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu must take urgent action: call the FCT Minister to order, halt this wasteful spending, and redirect focus to service delivery. This is not a time for flamboyance and fanfare. It is a moment that demands humility, responsibility, and an unwavering commitment to the public good. Nigeria deserves better. The time to act is now.”
Ejiofor is a Human Rights Lawyer who entered national consciousness by his robust defence of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, as their Lawyer, and, until in recent months, the main lead Counsel to embattled IPOB’s leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
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