Atiku responds to Wike on 2027 PDP presidential ticket

Former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar has responded to Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike’s remarks regarding the PDP’s 2027 presidential ticket.
Wike had previously stated that Atiku would not be allowed to run for president of the PDP in 2027, it was remembered.

“He is lobbying for another chance, but the chance will not be there,” the minister had stated. Which party is it? How can we depend on a single individual for so long?

The former vice president has no chance of succeeding in 2027, Wike said during a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday.

The FCT Minister also claimed that Atiku is looking for another chance to run as the party’s candidate, but that opportunity will not come.

Atiku quickly responded by reminding Wike of how he “schooled him and his protégé” during the 2019 election through Phrank Shaibu, his Special Assistant on Public Communication.

According to Atiku, if Wike had the power, he would have taken the party’s presidential ticket for himself.

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“He would have kept a presidential ticket for himself if he had the authority to give them out like party favors. After all, Atiku handily defeated him in the 2023 Abuja primary after thoroughly educating him and his selected protégé in his backyard prior to the 2019 election.

But here he is, fixated on who would be the PDP’s candidate, even though he has publicly declared that Tinubu will win in 2027.

That’s rather early in the day, isn’t it? The actual problems—the deteriorating living conditions of Nigerians—should be our main concern.

“We should be addressing this hunger, not 2027 political ploys, because it is becoming intolerable,” Shaibu stated.