{"id":175127,"date":"2025-08-20T08:53:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/wike-dismisses-amaechis-presidential-bid-as-dead-on-arrival"},"modified":"2025-08-20T10:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:05:41","slug":"wike-dismisses-amaechis-presidential-bid-as-dead-on-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-dismisses-amaechis-presidential-bid-as-dead-on-arrival","title":{"rendered":"Wike Dismisses Amaechi&#8217;s Presidential Bid as Dead on Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Wike has dismissed the presidential bid of former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to Amaechi\u2019s claims that he knows President Bola Tinubu\u2019s weakness, Wike said his presidential bid is \u201cdead on arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, Wike said Amaechi knows he cannot secure the presidential ticket of the African Democratic Congress, ADC.<\/p>\n<p>Amaechi is currently a member of the ADC, and there are rumours that he intends to run for the presidency in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>However, Wike said: \u201cHe (Amaechi) knows he won\u2019t get the ticket. I read that he said he knows the weaknesses of the president, so he knows how to defeat him, but he also knew the weaknesses of the president in 2022 when the president defeated him mercilessly in the primary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerians know the last person they will give a ticket to because they know it (Amaechi\u2019s bid) is dead on arrival.\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. Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Wike has dismissed the presidential bid of former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi. Reacting to Amaechi\u2019s claims that he knows President Bola Tinubu\u2019s weakness, Wike said his presidential bid is \u201cdead on arrival.\u201d Appearing on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, Wike said Amaechi knows he cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":175126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[250,254,454],"class_list":["post-175127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-amaechi","tag-nigeria","tag-wike"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wike Dismisses Amaechi&#039;s Presidential Bid as Dead on Arrival - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Wike has dismissed the presidential bid of former Minister of Transport ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-dismisses-amaechis-presidential-bid-as-dead-on-arrival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wike Dismisses Amaechi&#039;s Presidential Bid as Dead on Arrival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Wike has dismissed the presidential bid of former Minister of Transport ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-dismisses-amaechis-presidential-bid-as-dead-on-arrival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-20T07:53:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-20T09:05:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755668277.156153.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"646\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-dismisses-amaechis-presidential-bid-as-dead-on-arrival#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-dismisses-amaechis-presidential-bid-as-dead-on-arrival\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Wike Dismisses Amaechi&#8217;s Presidential Bid as Dead on Arrival\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-20T07:53:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-20T09:05:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-dismisses-amaechis-presidential-bid-as-dead-on-arrival\"},\"wordCount\":180,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-dismisses-amaechis-presidential-bid-as-dead-on-arrival#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755668277.156153.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Amaechi\",\"Nigeria\",\"Wike\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-dismisses-amaechis-presidential-bid-as-dead-on-arrival#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-dismisses-amaechis-presidential-bid-as-dead-on-arrival\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-dismisses-amaechis-presidential-bid-as-dead-on-arrival\",\"name\":\"Wike Dismisses Amaechi's Presidential Bid as Dead on Arrival - 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