The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has declared that he has “no regrets openly supporting President Bola Tinubu since 2022.” He stated that criticisms and abuses over his political stance have never bothered him.
The minister stated this at a special event organised to mark his 58th birthday anniversary, where he said his support for President Tinubu had remained consistent before, during and after the 2023 presidential election.
In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, the minister said his political decisions had always been “guided by the principles of character and integrity,” stressing that he never hid his position from the beginning.
He recalled that during the build-up to the 2023 presidential election, he was the only leading figure from the main opposition party who openly declared support for Tinubu, a decision he said was “based on equity, fairness and justice, as well as his conviction that power should shift to the South.”
Wike further argued that his leadership capacity was evident in Rivers State during the elections, noting that while the All Progressives Congress won the presidential election in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party secured victories in the National Assembly, governorship, State House of Assembly and local government elections under his watch.
It was report that the minister first openly declared his support for President Bola Tinubu amid the internal crisis that engulfed the PDP following the emergence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the party’s presidential candidate at its May 2022 primaries.
Wike, who was then the Governor of Rivers State, opposed Atiku’s emergence, insisting on a southern-led party leadership in line with the PDP’s zoning principle and in the interest of equity, fairness and justice,
