Responding on Arise Television's Morning Show, Olayinka lashed out at Abati for his hypocrisy.
Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike has called out former presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati.
He was reacting after Abati labeled the FCT Minister "rude."
Reacting, Olayinka claimed Abati hates Wike.
Abati had claimed that Wike was very rude, stressing that Amaechi was his boss in politics.
The Arise Television anchor was reacting to Wike's remark that Amaechi was hungry for power and could not deliver 10 percent of the vote for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 presidential election.
Abati said: "Wike is very rude and disrespectful because Amaechi is his boss in politics. When he was local government chairman during Amaechi's second term, it was Amaechi who helped him to become LGA Chairman and subsequently become Chief of Staff and recommended him to become Minister of State for Education in Abuja."
Responding on Arise Television's Morning Show, Olayinka lashed out at Abati for his hypocrisy.
He recalled how Abati went to Wike's house to beg when he had issues with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Olayinka also narrated how the former presidential spokesman was a governorship running mate to an alleged wanted drug lord by the American government.
He said: "Abati used unprinted words that the Minister is rude, words I was not expecting from somebody who has functioned as the editorial chairman of the Guardian newspaper.
"For somebody like that to come to the studio and start saying that a Minister is rude in defense of Amaechi is unacceptable.
"In journalism, we are not supposed to have an opinion, I was shocked to hear him turning himself to the spokesperson of Amaechi.
"I want to suggest that since he's now Amaechi's spokesman, he should excuse himself from Arise TV and go do his job properly, he should not be using the platform provided by respected Nigerians like the Duke to ventilate his anger, frustration, and hatred for Wike.
"It's obvious that he hates Wike, he said here that Wike is rude. When he had issues with EFCC and had to pay back the money he got from Dasuki loot, he and his wife knew the road to Wike's house, to beg for a bailout which he got, but Wike was not rude then.
"Abati has always come to this station to present himself as a moral police to postulate and he will not one day tell us that at a moment in his life, he was a politician, a member of the PDP and was the party's deputy governorship candidate in Ogun State and was comfortable having his picture displayed with somebody who was wanted by the American government for alleged drug trafficking.
"He was comfortable on the podium with somebody wanted by the American government for alleged drug trafficking. That is the person that will come here and pronounce with his mouth that a former governor and Minister that he once ran to for help is a rude person, he is a bully."
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