{"id":69870,"date":"2025-07-07T10:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69870"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:39:16","slug":"wike-backs-tinubu-says-fct-progress-proves-presidents-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/07\/wike-backs-tinubu-says-fct-progress-proves-presidents-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Backs Tinubu, Says FCT Progress Proves President\u2019s Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has reaffirmed his support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, citing visible developmental strides in the FCT as proof of the administration\u2019s commitment to good governance.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a thanksgiving service at St. James\u2019 Church, Asokoro, Abuja, Wike said he joined the Tinubu government because he was confident it would deliver the dividends of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>He urged Nigerians to be patient, noting that significant progress has already been made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Tinubu\u2019s government wasn\u2019t working, I would not support it,\u201d Wike declared. \u201cEveryone can see the changes, especially in the FCT, where access to funds was a challenge before the President removed us from the Treasury Single Account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also condemned politicians forming coalitions under the African Democratic Congress (ADC), accusing them of selfish motives.<\/p>\n<p>Wike called on the Church to continue praying for the President and his team, describing Tinubu as a leader deeply committed to governance and national progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has reaffirmed his support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, citing visible developmental strides in the FCT as proof of the administration\u2019s commitment to good governance. Speaking during a thanksgiving service at St. James\u2019 Church, Asokoro, Abuja, Wike said he joined the Tinubu government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69870","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69872,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69870\/revisions\/69872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}