{"id":193536,"date":"2026-02-04T16:10:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/politics-wont-affect-my-job-wike-speaks-on-fct-projects"},"modified":"2026-02-04T17:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:16:52","slug":"politics-wont-affect-my-job-wike-speaks-on-fct-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/politics-wont-affect-my-job-wike-speaks-on-fct-projects","title":{"rendered":"Politics won\u2019t affect my job \u2013 Wike speaks on FCT projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, said politics won\u2019t affect the discharge of his duties as minister.<\/p>\n<p>Wike said he is the Minister of FCT to serve the people of the capital city, stressing that politics won\u2019t affect his job.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke while fielding questions from journalists after inspecting projects in the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the question, Wike said, \u201cHow will it affect my job? Politics isn\u2019t here and you have to serve the people, the work will have to go on and politics won\u2019t affect it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the area council elections that is coming up in just a few weeks and are we not doing our work?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt won\u2019t affect us, what\u2019s important is for us to pay the contractor and I have told the FCDA to supervise and let us know from time to time to wake up ourselves and let us know, so politics of 2027 will not affect our work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The minister also spoke about the road projects he inspected, while expressing satisfaction with the level of work done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went to the social research roads, to Nile University and Body of Benchers and very important the traffic that leads to the old road that leads to EFCC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe work done there is very encouraging and the company did assure that my the end of May they would have handed over that project and it\u2019s one of the projects we have earmarked for inauguration during the president\u2019s third year in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom there, we went to the development child extension leading to the annex,\u201d he added.<\/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, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, said politics won\u2019t affect the discharge of his duties as minister. Wike said he is the Minister of FCT to serve the people of the capital city, stressing that politics won\u2019t affect his job. 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