FCT Minister Nyesom Wike stated that former President Goodluck Jonathan has not informed him of any plan to contest the 2027 presidential election.
Wike made this known in Abuja during a live media parley, monitored by Persecondnews, where he was responding to questions concerning speculations that Jonathan was being pressured to enter the presidential race.
The immediate past Rivers governor said: “You are the one telling me here. Jonathan has never told me; he has never called me one day .’Look, I am 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.
“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.”
On the emergence of former Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Mr. Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN), as the consensus candidate for the position of National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Wike distanced himself from the development, saying he knows nothing about it.
“I do not know about Tanimu Turaki becoming chairman; maybe he becomes chairman for another faction — it is not the PDP I know,” he said.
Persecondnews recalls that the PDP Northern stakeholders had recently endorsed Turaki as their consensus candidate ahead of the party’s national convention scheduled for November 15 – 16 in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Wike also dismissed the upcoming convention as illegal, hinting that 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.
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