Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said former president Goodluck Jonathan has not informed him about contesting in 2027.

Wike made the remark during a media parley with journalists on Friday in Abuja, while responding to questions about speculations that Jonathan was being pressured to return to the presidential race.

The former Rivers State governor said if Jonathan informed him or seek his opinion, he would tell him what he thinks about the decision.

“You’re the one telling me here. Jonathan has never told me; he has never called me one day that, 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,” Wike said.

He added that he would not “assume it’s correct” just because it appeared in the newspapers.
On the emergence of former Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN), as the consensus candidate for the position of National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Wike distanced himself from the development.

“I don’t know about Tanimu Turaki becoming chairman; maybe he becomes chairman for another faction—it’s not the PDP I know,” he stated. The PDP Northern stakeholders had recently endorsed Turaki as their consensus candidate ahead of the party’s national convention scheduled for November 15–16.

Wike further dismissed the upcoming convention as illegal, hinting that he would not attend.

“How do you want me to attend a convention that I know by law that there is no convention?” he queried.

The Minister’s comments come amid reports that former President Jonathan is reportedly under intense pressure to drop his speculated 2027 presidential ambition and instead support President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid.