{"id":159850,"date":"2025-04-18T23:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T22:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-presidency-atiku-never-keeps-to-his-words-wike-hints-on-supporting-tinubu"},"modified":"2025-04-22T22:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:03:01","slug":"2027-presidency-atiku-never-keeps-to-his-words-wike-hints-on-supporting-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-presidency-atiku-never-keeps-to-his-words-wike-hints-on-supporting-tinubu","title":{"rendered":"2027 presidency: Atiku never keeps to his words \u2013 Wike hints on supporting Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Friday said former Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, does not keep to his words.<\/p>\n<p>Wike made the remark while insisting that he made the right decision to have supported President Bola Tinubu in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed this during his media chat in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wike: \u201cPDP is not ready and it\u2019s very obvious, you don\u2019t need to like me, what I\u2019m saying is that, is it going to help the party? All this power struggle is not going to help us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2023 I stood firm that I won\u2019t support the PDP candidate. As at 2023, APC was down because the Buhari government was not doing well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA decision had to be taken on who to support and when I looked at it, Atiku was not an option, so it\u2019s a no-go area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing you must know is that Atiku does not keep to his words, I can tell you authoritatively what happened in 2019. Atiku, Saraki, and Secondus came to see me that I was going to nominate Attorney General and Minister of Petroleum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we lost the election, the man who was supposed to be the Attorney General did not know when the legal team was constituted.<\/p>\n<p>I called Saraki, you people constituted legal team but you said I was going to bring the AG \u2014 that\u2019s the point I\u2019m making, people don\u2019t keep to their words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know from day one that Atiku will never keep to his words and I have never banked on that, it was very clear that I made the right decision and you can\u2019t see me now saying I will support who for president? How?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Friday said former Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, does not keep to his words. Wike made the remark while insisting that he made the right decision to have supported President Bola Tinubu in 2023. 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