The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has offered reasons why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will secure a decisive victory in Abuja in the 2027 presidential election.
Wike said the president’s unparalleled record of infrastructural development and good governance are the clincher.
Speaking on Monday during a live interview on a national television, Wike contrasted the current administration’s transformative achievements with previous governments and cited tangible governance, structural reforms, and historic project completions across the territory and its satellite towns as some of the reasons why the political dynamics in the FCT will differ from the 2023 elections.
According to the minister, “The people of the FCT have never felt the impact of governance. What is governance? Governance is—look at the road here. Governance is—look at education. Governance is—look at the health sector. Governance is—look, see what I’m benefiting at the end of the day.”
The minister highlighted President Tinubu’s bold decision to exit the FCT from the Treasury Single Account, TSA, as the financial catalyst that unlocked critical infrastructure funding across the territory.
“Leaving the Treasury Single Account made us to be independent, to be able to access commercial banks, to get money to carry out infrastructure. So today, that’s what this administration, that’s what the leadership of Asiwaju has been able to do. How many presidents took that initiative?
“Under Buhari, I remember vividly, we inherited 25 projects; we have completed 23 projects. And under my administration, we have awarded 107. We have completed 70-something. And as I speak to you, from now to January, we’ll complete another 20.
“Take for example, Apo-Karshi was awarded in 2010—16 years ago! Today, by November this year, under the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration, that project will be handed over.”
“I challenge anybody in this country as far as this administration is concerned in FCT to say that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has not surpassed any administration put together since the establishment or creation of FCT. I challenge anybody.”
Responding directly to critics within the Progressives Governors’ Forum who claim the cross-party Rainbow Coalition will destabilize the ruling party or confuse voters, the FCT minister dismissed the allegations as political self-interest and blackmail, revealing that President Tinubu was fully briefed on the strategy.
“Let Nigerians know, and know it well, that all this crying that the rainbow coalition will confuse people, is not true. If a governor can leave his state and go to Abuja merely to have a press conference to say that they are dissatisfied by this rainbow coalition, then you have a question to ask: Is that governor really a serious governor?”
“Who will be more confused? I am PDP, supporting the President, and I’m telling my candidates to support Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“So, it would mean that my own candidates will even be more confused. I should be worried, and I’m not worried, and you are worried!”
The minister named specific governors—including Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State, and Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State—accusing them of attempting to mask their own internal party mismanagement and legislative succession ambitions by attacking the coalition.
“Governor Hope Uzodimma, Governor of Kwara, Governor Dapo Abiodun, and some of them who have their own problems, who cannot solve their own internal problems, think that they can muzzle me because I say I’m going to support Mr. President… They caused an internal problem for themselves, they have no capacity to solve the problem, and all they do is to resort to blackmail.”
Dismissing rumors that President Tinubu had agreed to “concede nine states” to him or that the coalition was designed to advance personal presidential ambitions for 2031, Wike clarified that his sole focus remains securing President Tinubu’s second term across Nigeria.
“As I speak to you, I know Mr. President. There’s nothing I have done—I say it today, tomorrow—I’ve gone to him. And Mr. President understands me very well. Mr. President knows about my concept of the Rainbow Coalition… You are aware of my Governor, Fubara, that has gone back to his family to join the Rainbow Coalition.
“Today, why is it that nobody’s talking about crises in Rivers State? If there’s one state today that the President can go home and sleep that he has won, it’s Rivers!”
“As far as I’m concerned, the job Mr. President has given to me, have I done it well? Is he happy with what I’ve done? If he is, to hell with anybody! President Tinubu will win 2027; that’s non-negotiable.”
