Politics

‘Effect of 40-year-old whiskey’: Ex-Jonathan’s aide mocks Wike over wrongly buttoned suit

The former Director of Strategy and Communications under former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, Jackson Ude, has thrown a jibe at the immediate past governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, over his appearance during a visit to President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Wike was seen in a wrongly buttoned suit while posing for a picture with Tinubu alongside his G5 political allies on Thursday, June 8.

Speaking on the picture which has since been eliciting reactions on social media, Ude, in a tweet on his Twitter account, described it as the effect of a 40-year-old whiskey.

“This is what happens when a 40yrs old whiskey has become your bl**d. You are so dr*nk you don’t even know how to button your suit,” the former Jonathan’s aide tweeted.

READ ALSO: Tinubu: I couldn’t have won presidential election without Wike

The Star recalls that Wike, while addressing the supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party at the Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State in March 2023, stated that he was drinking a 40-year-old whiskey while he was watching the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and other members of the party on TV protesting against February 25 presidential election in Abuja.

“As they were protesting, I just sat down and took a 40-year whiskey. I called some of my friends and opened the 40-year-old whiskey as they were protesting,” Wike, who is the leader of the G5 or the Integrity Group, had said.

The other members of the G5 were Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde; and former Governors Samuel Ortom (Benue), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu).

The group was constituted after the PDP chieftains fell out with Atiku over his alleged refusal to prevail on the party’s former National Chairman, Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, to resign after the former Vice President clinched the presidential ticket of the opposition party in May 2022.

The aggrieved PDP chieftains insisted that it was unfair for the party to have the national chairman and presidential candidate from the northern region of the country.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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