Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has brushed off speculations suggesting that former President Goodluck Jonathan is plotting a comeback ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
Wike, who spoke during a media parley with journalists in Abuja on Friday, said he was unaware of any such plan, stressing that Jonathan had never discussed it with him.
“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 said.
He added, “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.”
Turning to internal party politics, Wike also distanced himself from the emergence of former Minister of Special Duties, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN), as the reported consensus candidate for the position of PDP National Chairman.
“I don’t know about Tanimu Turaki becoming chairman; maybe he becomes chairman for another faction — it’s not the PDP I know,” he fired.
The PDP Northern bloc had recently endorsed Turaki ahead of the party’s national convention slated for November 15–16 in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Wike, however, dismissed the planned convention as “illegal,” insisting he would not attend.
“How do you want me to attend a convention that I know by law that there is no convention?” he queried.
