Nyesom Wike, Nigeria’s Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, says he worked with the APC to help defeat the PDP in Edo State’s 2024 governorship election, and he has no regrets. Multiple outlets report that Wike also described why he opposed the PDP’s candidate, Asue Ighodalo, in that election.
Premium Times places Wike’s remarks in a wider context of his earlier disclosures about coalition politics. It notes that Wike had previously spoken about how the “G-5” governors operated against Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 presidential election, including in Edo and Cross River.
The reports converge on Wike’s central point: he acknowledges cross-party collaboration in Edo and frames his decision as deliberate, consistent with the alignments among governors at the time, rather than a change of position.
