Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), thinks Rotimi Amaechi’s ambitions to become president are doomed from the start.
Speaking on Tuesday’s episode of Politics Today on Channels Television, Wike declared that Nigerians would not give Amaechi a chance in the 2027 election.
Having placed second in the 2022 APC presidential primary, which was won by former Lagos governor Tinubu, Amaechi is a member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), an opposition party that aims to unseat All Progressives Congress (APC) President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 election.
Amaechi is running for the ADC’s presidential ticket in 2027 after leaving the APC in 2025. But according to Wike, who coincidentally had a similar past with Amaechi as the former governor of Rivers State, his predecessor will not receive the ADC ticket for the 2027 election.
“He (Amaechi) knows he won’t get the ticket,” the FCT minister stated. I read that he said he knows the weaknesses of the president, so he knows how to defeat him, but he also knew the weaknesses of the president in 2022 when the president defeated him mercilessly in the primary.
“Nigerians know the last person they will give a ticket to because they know it (Amaechi’s bid) is dead on arrival.”
