Jonathan Is Yet To Inform Me Of His Plan To Run For President In 2027- Wike

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Friday disclosed that former President Goodluck Jonathan has yet to inform him of any plan to contest the 2027 presidential election.
Wike made disclosure during a media parley with newsmen in Abuja on Friday, while responding to questions about speculations that Jonathan was being pressured to return to 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, 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.
“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,” he added.
Speaking on the emergence of former Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN), as the consensus candidate for the position of National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Wike distanced himself from the development, saying he knows nothing about it.
“I don’t know about Tanimu Turaki becoming chairman; maybe he becomes chairman for another faction — it’s not the PDP I know,” he stated.
Recall 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 capital.
Speaking further, Wike 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.