Wike stated this on Friday while speaking to journalists during an inspection of ongoing infrastructure projects in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Commenting on the state of the opposition, the minister said the crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had made it difficult to identify a formidable leading opposition party.
He said, “I’ve told you there is no position. What do you have people who are not trying to see whether they can be relevant? Who’s the opposition leader now? Ordinarily, it would have been PDP, but because of the crisis we have had, and so you can’t see a formidable party that you call a leading opposition party.
“So, whatever they feel, it’s none of my business. I don’t want them to feel well. It’s not my wish that they should feel well.
“My business is to make them not to feel well all the days. Because they will be having high blood pressure. Yes, that’s my job.
“To make them to have high blood pressure. I am not here to make them to feel good, no. You see, when you are having a contest with somebody, your business is not to make him feel well.
“Your business is to make sure you beat him thoroughly. So that he will be sick all through. And that’s what we are doing to them.”
Wike, a former governor of Rivers State and member of the PDP, has remained at odds with several opposition figures amid the political crisis within the party.
The minister also dismissed concerns about how former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, would react to the current political developments.
He added, “So how Atiku feels, how Obi feels, it does not give any headache. If I know how they feel now, I will add more crisis for them.”
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