Politics

You’ll Struggle To Get 2% Votes In FCT Come 2027– APC Tells Tinubu

ByHafsoh Isiaq

PublishedMarch 19, 2024

The Federal Capital Territory, FCT chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said President Bola Tinubu will struggle to get two percent of the votes in the 2027 presidential election in the capital if he fails to stop the minister, Nyesom Wike, from killing the party.

The party also accused Wike of killing the political structure of the party in FCT due to his lack of regard for the party and its leadership.

The party leaders stated this at a press conference in Abuja, lamenting the disregard of APC members in recent appointments made by Wike.

They also said the party may lose the next Area Council election if the situation remains unchanged.

The APC chieftains, led by convener, Comrade Abdulwahab Ekekhide, and co-convener, David Omobolaji Obaje, said the minister, since assuming office, has refused to sit with the leadership of the party, even though the party has written him a series of letters for him to grant them audience, but all to no avail.

OSUN DEFENDER recalls that Wike, a PDP member, was appointed FCT minister by President Tinubu, the leader of the APC.

Ekekhide, however, said the leadership and entire members of the APC family in the FCT, in unison, reject “in very strong terms the continuous lopsided appointments, abandonment and total disregard for the APC in FCT by the minister.”

“We call on Mr. President, who is the Governor-General to call the Minister to order so that he can retrace his steps and start empowering the party, or else, the party will struggle to get 2% for the President in the 2027 Presidential election and may lose the next Area Councils election if the situation remains this way.

“As we all know, the President is the Governor-General of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), but delegates his powers to a Minister, and today Barr. Nyesom Wike is standing in for the President as Hon. Minister of the FCT,” he added.