Wike: Jonathan hasn’t discussed 2027 presidential bid with me

The minister 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.

“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.”

When asked about former Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN), emerging as Peoples Democratic Party National Chairman consensus candidate, Wike said he’s not in the loop on that 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 in Ibadan, Oyo State.

Speaking further, Wike 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.