2027: Again, Wike backs Tinubu, dismisses reports of Presidential bid

By Omeiza Ajayi

ABUJA: The Federal Capital Territory FCT minister, Nyesom Wike, has dismissed reports suggesting that a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP was urging him to contention the 2027 statesmanlike election, describing the assertion arsenic “cheap blackmail and idle propaganda.”

Wike’s Senior Special Assistant connected Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, successful a connection connected Friday, said the report, which emanated from an online level helium accused of thriving connected “falsehood and blackmail,” was not lone baseless but besides aimed astatine maligning the minister’s reputation.

“As acold arsenic Wike is concerned, it is President Bola Ahmed Tinubu till 2031,” Olayinka declared, insisting that the FCT curate had already made his governmental presumption wide and was committed to supporting the President for 2 afloat terms.

The statesmanlike speculation, helium said, was tied to a regular gathering of PDP stakeholders from Southern Nigeria connected August 20, 2025.

Olayinka explained that the gathering, whose result was wide reported successful the media, had thing to bash with Wike’s statesmanlike ambition but was convened to deliberate connected zoning arrangements wrong the party.

He listed salient politicians who signed the communiqué of that meeting, including authorities enactment chairmen from Imo, Abia, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, and Rivers; National Vice Chairman (South-East), Hon. Chidiebere Egwu Goodluck; and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. O. K. Chinda, among others.

According to Olayinka, mischief makers were present twisting the facts to suggest Wike was secretly plotting a statesmanlike run. “The Minister does not relation successful hiding. He does what helium says, and says what helium does,” helium stressed.

Reiterating Wike’s loyalty to the existent administration, Olayinka said, “From present till 2031, it is connected the mandate of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that helium volition stand. To guarantee the President’s reelection, Wike volition proceed to present connected the Renewed Hope Agenda successful the FCT by actualizing the visions of the President for a superior metropolis that tin vie globally successful infrastructure and development.”

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