{"id":69986,"date":"2025-07-08T13:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69986"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:26:14","slug":"fct-residents-will-decide-wikes-fate-at-polls-sen-kingibe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/08\/fct-residents-will-decide-wikes-fate-at-polls-sen-kingibe\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Residents Will Decide Wike\u2019s Fate at Polls -Sen Kingibe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senator Ireti Kingibe has said that residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), are dissatisfied with Minister Nyesom Wike\u2019s leadership and will express their displeasure at the forthcoming council elections.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels Television on Monday, July 8, 2025, Kingibe accused Wike of ignoring the real needs of the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people of the FCT resent Wike. They are unhappy with his attitude and lack of action,\u201d she said, calling the elections a referendum on his performance.<\/p>\n<p>Her remarks come amid reports of neglect in rural communities. In Chetta, Gaube Ward (Kuje Area Council), residents are forced to rely on contaminated water from an abandoned mining site due to lack of clean water.<\/p>\n<p>Civic tech group Monitng raised concerns about health risks, especially for women and children, citing repeated government promises that remain unfulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>Residents now see the upcoming polls as a chance to demand better governance and improved basic services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat Senator Ireti Kingibe has said that residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), are dissatisfied with Minister Nyesom Wike\u2019s leadership and will express their displeasure at the forthcoming council elections. Speaking on Channels Television on Monday, July 8, 2025, Kingibe accused Wike of ignoring the real needs of the people. \u201cThe people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69986","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\/69986","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=69986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69988,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69986\/revisions\/69988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}