Nigeria, May 13 -- The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has dismissed criticisms trailing his recent visit to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nentawe Yilwatda, insisting that politics should not be reduced to hostility and suspicion.

Mr Wike spoke on Wednesday while inspecting ongoing road projects in Karu, Apo-Karshi and Kubwa in the FCT, where he also reiterated his administration's commitment to completing infrastructure projects within schedule.

The former Rivers governor said his meeting with Mr Yilwatda was a personal visit between long-time associates, not a political gathering, and that he owed no one a public explanation for his private movements.

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