The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has said that former President Goodluck Jonathan has not informed him of any intention to contest the 2027 presidential election.
Wike made this known on Friday during a media parley with journalists in Abuja while reacting to reports suggesting that Jonathan was being urged to return to the presidential race.
He said, “You’re the one telling me here. Jonathan has never told me; he has never called me one day. Look, I’m being pressured to run, what’s your thinking? If he calls me and asks me, I will be able to tell him my mind and what I feel.”
The minister dismissed the speculations as unfounded, adding that he would not rely on media reports to make assumptions about Jonathan’s political intentions.
“I will not because you people put something on the pages of the newspapers—just like you said they flew me out of the country—then I now assume it’s correct,” he said.
