Wike: I won’t contest against Tinubu in 2027

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, says he will not contest the 2027 presidential election against President Bola Tinubu.

Wike stressed that no politician in the country is capable of challenging Tinubu in the 2027 election.

“I will not contest again. I cannot contest against someone I am working with. Who will win except him?” the former governor of Rivers State said in a recent interview with BBC Pidgin.

The minister contested the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election but lost to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

Wike added that the would not dump the PDP ahead of the 2027 general election.

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He, however, criticised some leaders of the opposition party, saying: “Who is in the PDP? Achike Udenwa, a former governor of Imo, does not have one National Assembly member. He did not give his party three per cent of the votes.

“The former governor of Ebonyi State does not have one Assembly member; he does not have one National Assembly member. You did not produce a governor, you are issuing threats. What are you threatening? You are empty.

“I cannot do that kind of thing (defect). I am not a fearful man. Am I a weak man? How will I build a house, and you will come and frustrate me to leave? Who will leave? You will leave; I will not allow you to spoil the house I built. I will remain.”

The Star