Wike rallies support for APC ahead of 2026 FCT Council Polls

By Omeiza Ajayi 

ABUJA: The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Nyesom Wike, connected Monday openly backed the All Progressives Congress APC up of the February 2026 Area Council elections, urging residents of Tunga Madaki and adjoining communities to ballot for the ruling party.

Wike, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, threw his value down the incumbent president of Abuja Municipal Area Council AMAC, Christopher Maikalangu, who precocious defected from the PDP to the APC and is seeking re-election for a 2nd term.

Speaking astatine the flag-off of a 7-kilometre roadworthy task with four-span bridges linking Tunga Madaki to 8 different settlements, Wike said the operation was a fulfillment of President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda and a nonstop effect to assemblage demands during the onshore compensation process for the 2nd runway astatine the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.

“It was unfair that a radical surrendered their ancestral lands for a nationalist task similar a 2nd runway, yet had nary entree road, adjacent to the airdrome they gave onshore for. I took the substance to Mr. President, and helium said, ‘Whatever they inquire for, springiness it to them.’ Today, we are present to fulfill that promise”, helium said.

The curate announced that the project, being executed by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation CCECC, would beryllium completed and commissioned successful June 2026, coinciding with Tinubu’s 3rd day successful office.

Calling connected residents to reward the APC astatine the polls, Wike declared; “One bully crook deserves another. When you bash for me, I bash for you. When you autumn for me, I autumn for you. When you perceive to me, I perceive to you.”

He credited Maikalangu with persistently pushing for the Tunga Madaki project, describing him arsenic “a tireless advocate” for his people.

Wike urged the assemblage to enactment Maikalangu successful adjacent year’s predetermination truthful that the commissioning of the roadworthy successful June would beryllium “a associated celebration.”

The FCT Minister further challenged residents to bespeak connected past administrations.

“You person had assembly chairmen before—did anyone retrieve Tunga Madaki? Did they link you to the airdrome whose onshore you gave away? Ask them wherever they were erstwhile your roads were impassable.

“Remember the antheral who remembered you during the rainy season. This is simply a clip to basal with the enactment that brought improvement to your doorstep”, helium said.

Wike stressed that the caller roadworthy would not lone supply captious entree to the airdrome via Bill Clinton Drive but besides unfastened up 9 antecedently neglected settlements to development.

The February 2026 Council Polls volition service arsenic a large trial of the APC’s governmental spot successful the capital, wherever nary ruling enactment has ever had a cleanable expanse of the six councils.

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