{"id":173362,"date":"2025-08-11T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/lere-olayinka-mocks-amaechi-over-tinubu-comments"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:52:32","slug":"lere-olayinka-mocks-amaechi-over-tinubu-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lere-olayinka-mocks-amaechi-over-tinubu-comments","title":{"rendered":"Lere Olayinka Mocks Amaechi Over Tinubu Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Lere Olayinka, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike\u2019s Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, has tackled former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, for saying that he knows how to defeat President Bola Tinubu in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Amaechi had said he can defeat Tinubu in 2027 because he knows the president\u2019s weakness.<\/p>\n<p>The former minister disclosed this at a public discussion on an X Space.<\/p>\n<p>However, Olayinka wondered how Amaechi could defeat Tinubu after suffering a series of defeats to Wike.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on X, Olayinka described Amaechi as a jester.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: \u201cHungry man Amaechi was a sitting governor in 2015, when Wike defeated him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHungry man Amaechi was a minister in 2019, when Wike defeated him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHungry man Amaechi just left office as a minister in 2023, when Wike defeated him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same hungry man Amaechi is boasting that he knows how to defeat Tinubu, a sitting president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know Tinubu\u2019s weaknesses, will defeat him if ADC gives me ticket \u2013 Amaechi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe: Just the way he defeated Tinubu in the APC primary of 2022 nah. Alawada.com.\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. Lere Olayinka, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike\u2019s Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, has tackled former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, for saying that he knows how to defeat President Bola Tinubu in 2027. 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