‘You can’t govern on Social Media’, Wike tells critics

By Omeiza Ajayi

ABUJA: Federal Capital Territory FCT minister, Nyesom Wike, connected Thursday launched a caller onslaught connected what helium called the civilization of “social media governance,” informing that nary magnitude of online criticisms would regenerate nonstop engagement with government.

Speaking astatine the flag-off of Collector Road C01 successful the Institution and Research District, a task linking the Body of Benchers analyzable to the Nile University corridor, Wike said liable citizens indispensable transmission demands done due avenues alternatively than “endless online noise.”

“If you like, spell 50 cardinal times to societal media, what you didn’t get done the door, you won’t get done the window. Good citizens telephone government’s attraction to problems; they don’t play authorities with societal media”, helium said.

He contrasted the Body of Benchers’ quiescent lobbying for the roadworthy with what helium described arsenic the “habit of immoderate Nigerians to unreserved online to onslaught government.”

According to him, it was the Benchers’ measured attack that persuaded President Bola Tinubu to o.k. backing for the task nether exigency procurement, adjacent though it was not initially successful the budget.

Wike assured that the road, which volition besides service Nile and Baze universities, some backstage entities, would beryllium completed wrong six months, making it 1 of the fastest-delivered projects nether his watch.

He besides announced caller facilities for the Abuja Campus of the Nigerian Law School, including 600-bed hostels and furnished bungalows, arsenic portion of Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

The curate argued that governance is simply a continuum, and nary medication tin lick each problem. Instead, helium urged citizens to request accountability responsibly and enactment authorities efforts alternatively than substance cynicism online.

“Even if you let maine to enactment present for 500 years, problems volition proceed to travel up. The important happening is to marque your publication truthful that past records you did your part,” helium maintained.

The station ‘You can’t govern connected Social Media’, Wike tells critics appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.