The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, says former President Goodluck Jonathan has not knowledgeable him of any plan to contest the 2027 presidential election.
Wike made the comment throughout a media parley with journalists in Abuja on Friday, whereas responding to questions on speculations that Jonathan was being pressured to return to the presidential race.
“You’re the one telling me right here. Jonathan has by no means instructed me; he has by no means referred to as me sooner or later that, look, I’m being pressured to run, what’s your pondering? If he calls me and asks me, I can inform him my thoughts and what I really feel,” Wike stated.
He added, “I can’t since you folks put one thing on the pages of the newspapers — similar to you stated they flew me in another country — then, I now assume it’s right.”
On the emergence of former Minister of Particular Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN), because the consensus candidate for the place of Nationwide Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP), Wike distanced himself from the event, saying he is aware of nothing about it.
“I don’t learn about Tanimu Turaki changing into chairman; possibly he turns into chairman for one more faction — it’s not the PDP I do know,” he said.
The PDP Northern stakeholders had lately endorsed Turaki as their consensus candidate forward of the celebration’s nationwide conference scheduled for November 15–16 in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Talking additional, Wike dismissed the upcoming conference as unlawful, hinting that he wouldn’t attend.
“How would you like me to attend a conference that I do know by regulation that there is no such thing as a conference?” he queried.
In the meantime, former President Jonathan is reportedly beneath intense stress to drop his speculated 2027 presidential ambition and help President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid.
Vanguard reviews that the stress is being spearheaded by influential Niger Delta figures, together with ex-militant chief Chief Authorities Ekpemupolo, popularly often called Tompolo.
A few of Jonathan’s kinsmen within the Niger Delta are additionally stated to have urged him to shelve any plans to return to energy and as a substitute again Tinubu’s second-term bid.
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