Nyesome Wike's appointment as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has prompted a response from Reno Omokri, a fervent supporter of Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Recall that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu appointed Wike as Minister of the FCT on Wednesday.

Omokri, however, thinks Wike's appointment will be sad for the FCT's indigenous people because they have never had a Minister appointed to them.

According to him, Wike’s appointment marks the first time a Southerner has been appointed FCT Minister since Mobolaji Ajose-Adeogun was appointed to that position in 1976.

"The appointment of ex-Governor Nyesom Wike as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory by President Bola Tinubu will mark the first time a Southerner has been appointed FCT Minister since Mobolaji Ajose-Adeogun was appointed to that position in 1976 by the then-Head of State, General Olusegun Obasanjo," Omokri wrote in a tweet via his Twitter account.

“It has taken forty-seven years for a non-Northerner to occupy that position again, and coincidentally, just like in 1976, the person was appointed by a fellow Southerner.

“Sadly, the original indigenous [people] of the area now known as the Federal Capital Territory have never been appointed ministers. Hopes had been high that the President would appoint the first FCT indigene ever nominated as a minister, Zephaniah Jisalo, to that position. But we have seen the way the cookie crumbled.”