{"id":76681,"date":"2025-10-14T14:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76681"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:45:13","slug":"wike-denies-boycotting-council-of-state-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/14\/wike-denies-boycotting-council-of-state-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Denies Boycotting Council of State Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has dismissed reports that he boycotted the recent Council of State meeting over the nomination of Prof. Joash Amupitan as INEC Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Tuesday during the commissioning of Access Roads in Dakibiyu District, Abuja, Wike said he had informed President Bola Tinubu of his absence due to prior official engagements and delegated the Minister of State, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud, to represent him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told Mr President I would not be available because of other engagements, so the Honourable Minister of State represented the FCT,\u201d he clarified.<\/p>\n<p>Wike described the reports as \u201cunnecessary propaganda and blackmail,\u201d reaffirming his loyalty to President Tinubu and crediting the administration\u2019s leadership for ongoing development in the FCT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has dismissed reports that he boycotted the recent Council of State meeting over the nomination of Prof. Joash Amupitan as INEC Chairman. Speaking on Tuesday during the commissioning of Access Roads in Dakibiyu District, Abuja, Wike said he had informed President Bola Tinubu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76681","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=76681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76683,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76681\/revisions\/76683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}