2027: Forget Rivers, only Tinubu can win state – Wike tells opposition

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has revealed that President Bola Tinubu is the only presidential candidate capable of winning Rivers State in the 2027 general elections.
Speaking during his monthly media chat in Abuja on Tuesday, Wike said anyone calculating the outcome of the next presidential election should leave Rivers State out unless the votes are being counted for Tinubu.
“If anybody is counting Rivers, go now and cancel it. The only person that can count Rivers is Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I’m not talking because I want to talk; I’m talking as a political realist because I know my people,” he said.
The former Rivers State governor disclosed ...