Elections
Wike Opens Up On Former Benefactor, Jonathan’s 2027 Bid
By Benjamin Abioye
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has denied claims that former President Goodluck Jonathan is being persuaded to run for president again in 2027.
Wike made the clarification during a media chat with journalists in Abuja on Friday, saying he had never received such information directly from the former president.
He said, “You’re the one telling me here. Jonathan has never told me; he has never called me one day that, ‘Look, I’m being pressured to run, what’s your thinking?’ If he calls me and asks me, I will be able to tell him my mind and what I feel.”
Wike added that he would not rely on unverified media reports, noting that, “I will not because you people put something on the pages of the newspapers, just like you said they flew me out of the country, then I now assume it’s correct.”
GWG.ng reports that Wike was at one time a beneficiary of President Jonathan under whose patronage he outsmarted Rotimi Amaechi to win the Rivers State governorship election in 2015.
Also at the press conference, Wike dismissed reports linking him to the endorsement of Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN) as the consensus candidate for the position of National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“I don’t know about Tanimu Turaki becoming chairman; maybe he becomes chairman for another faction, it’s not the PDP I know,” he said.
Recently, some northern PDP stakeholders had reportedly endorsed Turaki as their preferred choice ahead of the party’s national convention, scheduled to hold from November 15 to 16 in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Speaking further, Wike described the planned PDP convention as unlawful and made it clear he would not participate.
“How do you want me to attend a convention that I know by law that there is no convention?” he asked.
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