{"id":76741,"date":"2025-10-15T16:24:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76741"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:24:26","slug":"wike-mocks-former-critics-over-pdp-defections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/15\/wike-mocks-former-critics-over-pdp-defections\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Mocks Former Critics Over PDP Defections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/p>\n<p>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has mocked governors and leaders who once criticised him for allegedly working for the APC but have now defected from the PDP to the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Wednesday at the flag-off of the Outer Southern Expressway in Abuja, Wike said, \u201cAll of them are now in the APC. So, if it\u2019s true I was working for APC, then they should commend me for doing a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks as Enugu Governor Peter Mbah and Bayelsa Governor Douye Diri, alongside 19 Bayelsa lawmakers, recently dumped the PDP for the APC, reducing the opposition party\u2019s governors from 11 to eight.<\/p>\n<p>Wike also commended President Bola Tinubu for prudent economic leadership, noting that states now receive enough funds to pay salaries and execute projects without borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo governor will leave debts for his successor anymore. That\u2019s the kind of leadership this country needs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has mocked governors and leaders who once criticised him for allegedly working for the APC but have now defected from the PDP to the ruling party. Speaking on Wednesday at the flag-off of the Outer Southern Expressway in Abuja, Wike said, \u201cAll of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":76742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-76741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76741","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=76741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76743,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76741\/revisions\/76743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}