Comedian Mr Macaroni has called out FCT minister Nyesom Wike for threatening to sh00t Channels TV host Seun Okinbaloye for asking if Nigeria is now a one-party state.
Wike had during a media chat with select journalists strongly criticised the position taken by Channels TV journalist and anchor, Seun Okinbaloye, who argued that a one-party system is inimical to democratic survival in Nigeria.
Amid the controversy surrounding the derecognition of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) leadership by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) following a court ruling, Mr Okinbaloye, during Thursday’s edition of Channels TV’s Politics Today, raised concerns about the implications of a one-party system for Nigeria’s democracy.
He said: “I am particularly pained because what makes the race very interesting is when it is competitive, not only one party stands in the middle of the ballot and you’re looking for the rest of the political parties. When some of us talk, it looks like our mouth is smelling. And we have been on this ground for a while.
“There are a lot of experienced men in the ADC that should have seen the devil in some of the issues that have been raised in the past months. Particularly, it looks like one of the hopes of the opposition going into 2027. If this hope is dashed, we are doomed democratically,” the anchor stated.
Reacting to this on Friday, April 3, Mr Wike said “he would have shot” Mr Okinbaloye for what he described as taking sides in the leadership crisis rocking the ADC on national television.
“I was thoroughly surprised yesterday when I was watching Seun’s Politics Today. If there was any way to break the screen, I would have shot him. How can an interviewer say we cannot allow a one-party state?” the minister said.
The minister added, “You are now telling them your own view, as an interviewer, that you can’t allow a one-party state. I was just taken aback. I am not saying I will kill him. I am just angered that he made that kind of statement on national television. This is not the kind of journalism I have seen people do.”
Reacting to this, Mr Maraconi wrote:
“This is a so-called “serving” Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria saying in a live broadcast that he wished he could have shot and Killed a Nigerian Journalist. A country where public servants become tyrants because they know there is no consequence for impropriety.”
