By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: The Federal Capital Territory FCT minister, Nyesom Wike, has dismissed studies suggesting {that a} faction of the Peoples Democratic Get together PDP was urging him to contest the 2027 presidential election, describing the declare as “low-cost blackmail and idle propaganda.”
Wike’s Senior Particular Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, in a press release on Friday, mentioned the report, which emanated from an internet platform he accused of thriving on “falsehood and blackmail,” was not solely baseless but in addition geared toward maligning the minister’s popularity.
“So far as Wike is anxious, it’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu until 2031,” Olayinka declared, insisting that the FCT minister had already made his political place clear and was dedicated to supporting the President for 2 full phrases.
The presidential hypothesis, he mentioned, was tied to a routine assembly of PDP stakeholders from Southern Nigeria on August 20, 2025.
Olayinka defined that the gathering, whose consequence was broadly reported within the media, had nothing to do with Wike’s presidential ambition however was convened to deliberate on zoning preparations throughout the get together.
He listed outstanding politicians who signed the communiqué of that assembly, together with state get together chairmen from Imo, Abia, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, and Rivers; Nationwide Vice Chairman (South-East), Hon. Chidiebere Egwu Goodluck; and Minority Chief of the Home of Representatives, Hon. O. Ok. Chinda, amongst others.
Based on Olayinka, mischief makers had been now twisting the information to recommend Wike was secretly plotting a presidential run. “The Minister doesn’t operate in hiding. He does what he says, and says what he does,” he careworn.
Reiterating Wike’s loyalty to the present administration, Olayinka mentioned, “From now until 2031, it’s on the mandate of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that he’ll stand. To make sure the President’s reelection, Wike will proceed to ship on the Renewed Hope Agenda within the FCT by actualizing the visions of the President for a capital metropolis that may compete globally in infrastructure and growth.”
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