The Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Lere Olayinka has said that his principal is not nursing presidential ambition.
In a statement on Friday, Olayinka dismissed reports claiming that some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are pressuring the minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike to run for the presidency in 2027.
Olayinka said that Wike is fully committed to President Bola Tinubu’s re-election and has no plan to challenge him.
‘Wike does not function in hiding. He does what he says and says what he does’, the statement reads.
‘The Minister has made it clear where he stands as long as the 2027 Presidential election is concerned, he is with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
‘We know their intention, though. Unfortunately for them, and the platform they are using to propagate their idle plots, the person and character of the FCT Minister are known to everyone – he does not do anything in hiding.
‘He [Wike] has said it clearly that from now till 2031, it is on the mandate of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that he will stand.
‘To ensure the success of the President’s reelection, Wike will continue to deliver on the Renewed Hope Agenda in the FCT by actualising the visions of the President for a federal capital city that can compete with other capital cities in the world in terms of infrastructural development’.
Olayinka added that the only meeting on 20 August, as referenced in the report, was that of PDP stakeholders from the southern part of the country to take a stance on the micro-zoning of party positions zoned to the region.
