{"id":58531,"date":"2024-12-27T12:06:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58531"},"modified":"2024-12-27T12:06:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:06:50","slug":"no-regrets-supporting-tinubu-says-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/27\/no-regrets-supporting-tinubu-says-wike\/","title":{"rendered":"No Regrets Supporting Tinubu, says Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has stated he has no regrets supporting President Bola Tinubu during the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Wike, a former governor of Rivers State under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was appointed FCT Minister by Tinubu\u2019s All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration.<\/p>\n<p>At a PDP thanksgiving service in Ahoada East and West Local Government Areas of Rivers State, Wike expressed gratitude to President Tinubu for the ministerial appointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no regrets, no apologies. If the opportunity comes again, I will do the same,\u201d he said, recounting the threats he faced for supporting Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>Wike also dismissed allegations of land grabbing in Abuja as &#8220;baseless&#8221; and &#8220;laughable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated his responsibility for land management in the FCT and warned that individuals holding government land without proper process risk having their allocations revoked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the person in charge of lands in Abuja, how can I grab what I control? The right thing must be done, regardless of propaganda,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Wike acknowledged the challenges of managing the FCT, emphasizing that the capital represents all Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>He reaffirmed his commitment to due process in land management, stating, \u201cNo matter the propaganda, the right thing must be done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has stated he has no regrets supporting President Bola Tinubu during the 2023 general elections. Wike, a former governor of Rivers State under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was appointed FCT Minister by Tinubu\u2019s All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration. At a PDP thanksgiving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-58531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58533,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58531\/revisions\/58533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}