{"id":76883,"date":"2025-10-18T12:36:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76883"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:36:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:36:47","slug":"wike-reaffirms-loyalty-to-tinubu-dismisses-2027-presidential-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/18\/wike-reaffirms-loyalty-to-tinubu-dismisses-2027-presidential-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Reaffirms Loyalty to Tinubu, Dismisses 2027 Presidential Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has dismissed reports claiming that some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders are urging him to contest the 2027 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Saturday, Wike\u2019s Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications, Lere Olayinka, described the reports as \u201cfabricated stories from idle minds\u201d aimed at stirring political drama.<\/p>\n<p>He reaffirmed Wike\u2019s loyalty to President Bola Tinubu, saying, \u201cAs far as Wike is concerned, it is President Tinubu till 2031.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Olayinka clarified that the alleged PDP meeting where Wike was reportedly endorsed never took place, explaining that the only gathering held on August 20, 2025, involved southern PDP stakeholders discussing zoning arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>He said the story was a \u201cmischievous recycling of old facts\u201d meant to mislead the public, stressing that Wike remains focused on advancing Tinubu\u2019s Renewed Hope Agenda and transforming Abuja into a world-class capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal &nbsp; The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has dismissed reports claiming that some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders are urging him to contest the 2027 presidential election. In a statement on Saturday, Wike\u2019s Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications, Lere Olayinka, described the reports as \u201cfabricated stories from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2027-general-elections","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76883","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76885,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76883\/revisions\/76885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}