FCT Minister Nyesom Wike says former President Goodluck Jonathan has not informed him of any intention to contest the 2027 presidential election.
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said that former President Goodluck Jonathan has not discussed with him any plan to contest the 2027 presidential election.
Wike made the statement during a media parley with journalists in Abuja on Friday while reacting to reports that Jonathan was under pressure to rejoin the presidential race. “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,” Wike said.
He also distanced himself from the reported emergence of former Minister of Special Duties, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, as the consensus candidate for PDP National Chairman. “I don’t know about Tanimu Turaki becoming chairman; maybe he becomes chairman for another faction,” he added.
Wike further dismissed the forthcoming PDP convention as illegal, saying, “How do you want me to attend a convention that I know by law that there is no convention?”