Senator Ireti Heebah Kingibe has hit back at Mr. Lere Olayinka, media aide to FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, over what her camp described as a “childish and desperate smear campaign.”
In a strongly worded statement on Thursday, the Senior Special Assistant on Media to the Senator representing FCT, Kennedy Mbele, dismissed Olayinka’s recent media attack as baseless, defamatory, and a distraction from pressing governance issues affecting residents of the Federal Capital Territory.
“It is only a dirty mind that would accuse a 71-year-old grandmother of immorality,” the statement read, while also clarifying that all disengaged aides of the Senator were fully paid and provided palliatives.
The statement accused Olayinka of twisting facts from a public interview in which the Senator focused strictly on FCT matters, not personalities, and described his response as an “emotional meltdown” aimed at scoring cheap political points.
“Rather than defend his boss with facts, Lere resorted to gutter-level attacks. If this is the best he was hired to do, it’s a tragic waste of public funds,” the statement said.
Calling on residents of Abuja to ignore what it termed “gossip journalism,” Kingibe’s team urged the public to stay focused on holding leaders accountable and reject “tyranny and media mischief” in any form.
“No to tyranny in the FCT—no to distractions,” the statement concluded.
