The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has dismissed reports suggesting that former President, Goodluck Jonathan, is under pressure to return to the presidential race in 2027.

Naijaonpoint reports that Wike made the clarification during a media parley with journalists in Abuja on Friday.

Wike said, “You’re the one telling me here. Jonathan has never told me; he has never called me one day that, ‘Look, I’m being pressured to run, what’s your thinking?’ If he calls me and asks me, I will be able to tell him my mind and what I feel.

“I will not because you people put something on the pages of the newspapers, just like you said they flew me out of the country, then I now assume it’s correct.”

Wike also distanced himself from the emergence of Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN) as the consensus candidate for the position of National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“I don’t know about Tanimu Turaki becoming chairman; maybe he becomes chairman for another faction, it’s not the PDP I know,” he stated.

Northern PDP stakeholders had recently endorsed Turaki as their consensus choice ahead of the party’s national convention scheduled for November 15–16 in Ibadan, Oyo State.

Speaking further, the FCT Minister dismissed the forthcoming PDP national convention as illegal and hinted that he would not be in attendance.

“How do you want me to attend a convention that I know by law that there is no convention?” Wike queried.