Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, has stated that President Bola Tinubu should dismiss him if he does not deliver the FCT to the President in the 2027 general elections.
Wike made this remark on Wednesday while engaging with the leadership and members of the Apo Mechanics and Traders Association in Abuja.
The former governor of Rivers State said political appointees ought to be ready to take responsibility for how elections turn out in the areas where they hold influence.
“If I cannot deliver where I work, I am not worthy to be here. It means that whatever I am doing here, the people don’t think I am doing the right thing,” Wike said.
He also stated that he would consider himself unfit to remain FCT minister if he failed to secure electoral victory for Tinubu in the territory.
“And if I lose here, I should not be in that position. I tell people that I am a practical person. If I lose FCT, I am not supposed to be in FCT administration,” he said.
Wike also said the same thing about Rivers State, where he spent eight years as governor, stating that he could not keep publicly backing Tinubu while neglecting to deliver electoral support in his own home state.
“And if I go back to my state and the president cannot win, what am I shouting about the president, the president, when I cannot win?” he asked.
The minister called on other political appointees to take on the same responsibility for producing electoral results in their own areas.
“I want other people to take these kinds of challenges. I have taken Rivers State and FCT; let everybody take. You take this one; tell the president, if I don’t deliver this, remove me from here; I’ve said so,” Wike said.
His remarks come as he and several All Progressives Congress, APC, governors are at odds politically over the Rainbow Coalition he put together ahead of the 2027 elections.
Wike, a former governor and a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has continued to be a key figure in the political realignment ahead of the 2027 polls, even as he serves in Tinubu’s cabinet.
