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 informed me; he has by no means known as me someday that, look, I’m being pressured to run, what’s your pondering? If he calls me and asks me, I will 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 — identical 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 Social gathering (PDP), Wike distanced himself from the event, saying he is aware of nothing about it.
“I don’t find out about Tanimu Turaki changing into chairman; possibly he turns into chairman for an additional faction — it’s not the PDP I do know,” he said.
The PDP Northern stakeholders had just lately endorsed Turaki as their consensus candidate forward of the get together’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 legislation that there isn’t a conference?” he queried.
In the meantime, former President Jonathan is reportedly under intense pressure to drop his speculated 2027 presidential ambition and assist President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid.
Vanguard studies that the stress is being spearheaded by influential Niger Delta figures, together with ex-militant chief Chief Authorities Ekpemupolo, popularly often known as 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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