{"id":72273,"date":"2025-08-06T09:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72273"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:49:11","slug":"wikes-appointment-political-lamido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/06\/wikes-appointment-political-lamido\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike\u2019s Appointment Political -Lamido"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, has alleged that President Bola Tinubu appointed Nyesom Wike as FCT Minister purely to advance political interests in the South-South.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Speaking during an interview on Tuesday night, Lamido described the appointment as a strategic move to help Tinubu gain political foothold in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He cited growing influence in Akwa Ibom, Edo, and Wike\u2019s dominance in Rivers as evidence of the strategy working.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cTinubu was looking for someone to help him politically,\u201d Lamido said, calling the engagement transactional.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He claimed Wike would be removed once Tinubu secures the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWhen the South-South is in Tinubu\u2019s basket, Wike will become irrelevant,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, has alleged that President Bola Tinubu appointed Nyesom Wike as FCT Minister purely to advance political interests in the South-South. Speaking during an interview on Tuesday night, Lamido described the appointment as a strategic move to help Tinubu gain political foothold in the region. He cited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72273","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=72273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72275,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72273\/revisions\/72275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}