{"id":77404,"date":"2025-10-24T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77404"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:16:43","slug":"wike-ill-tell-jonathan-my-mind-if-he-joins-2027-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/24\/wike-ill-tell-jonathan-my-mind-if-he-joins-2027-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike: I\u2019ll Tell Jonathan My Mind If He Joins 2027 Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David<\/p>\n<p>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, says he will express his honest opinion to former President Goodluck Jonathan if the ex-leader decides to contest the 2027 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Friday, Wike said Jonathan has not discussed any political ambition with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJonathan has never told me. If he calls me and asks, I\u2019ll tell him my mind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation about Jonathan\u2019s return gained traction after former Information Minister, Prof. Jerry Gana, claimed the former president would contest on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>Wike, however, cautioned Jonathan against being influenced by politicians who misled him in 2015, urging him to protect his international reputation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, says he will express his honest opinion to former President Goodluck Jonathan if the ex-leader decides to contest the 2027 presidential election. Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Friday, Wike said Jonathan has not discussed any political ambition with him. \u201cJonathan has never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":77405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77404","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=77404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77406,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77404\/revisions\/77406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}