Real reason I supported Tinubu over Atiku – Wike 

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has refuted accusations of being double-faced in his relationship with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), insisting he has always been transparent about his political stance.

Speaking during his monthly media chat in Abuja on Monday, Wike made it clear that he never pretended to support former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the PDP’s 2023 presidential candidate.

According to him, he was upfront from the onset about his refusal to back Atiku’s bid for the presidency.

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.

“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.

“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.

“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?”