The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has denied accusations of being inconsistent in his stance toward the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
During his monthly media chat in Abuja on Monday, the 4th of August, 2025, Wike addressed claims that he played both sides in the lead-up to the 2023 presidential election.
He said: “I take exception to people saying I’m double faced, we must like people who will tell you what they will do and they will do it.”
Wike said he was upfront from the start about his refusal to back PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
“I made it clear that I was not going to support Atiku, I did not attend their meeting after which I did a different thing. I stood for equity, fairness, and justice that it’s the South that should produce the presidency in 2023.”
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He insisted he acted based on conviction and was never deceptive, “I never hid so the issue of double faced does not arise. If they said they saw me in their campaign and I went to do a different thing that would have been double faced.”
Explaining his reason for joining forces with President Bola Tinubu’s APC-led administration, Wike added, “From day one I said no, I am not going to support them, who am I going to support from the South in my opinion who stand to win the election, who has the capacity to take away Nigeria from were we where.
“That was my own judgement and I was right, Tinubu won the election because there was the tendency he was going to win and does he have the tendency to bring Nigeria out from where it was?”