By Suleiman Anyalewechi
With the dust raised by the comments and actions of the Federal Capital Territory FCT Minister Nyesom Wike before, and during the FCT Council polls yet to settle, Wike has further stirred another controversy with his open declaration that Senator Ireti Kingibe will not return to the Senate as the representative of the FCT.
The Source reports that Wike, in the count down to the just concluded FCT Council polls unapologetically told bemused fellow country men and women that only candidates perceived to be supportive of President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda and administration would be allowed to scale through the elections.
On another occasion, he gleefully told a gathering of All Progressive Congress, APC supporters, to simply go and cast their votes on the election day and leave the rest efforts for him.
Of course ,he never disappointed as he turned out a sterling and overwhelming performance as the APC swept the polls.
Speaking at an interactive session with the media broadcast live on TV channels on Monday, March 2, 2026, the FCT Minister informed that his earlier position on the political future of Senator Kingibe, to the effect that she will not be returning to the hallowed red chamber of the National Assembly after the 2027 polls remains sacrosanct.
For the FCT Minister , the fate of the African Democratic Congress ADC Senator is sealed. According to him, the new political structures springing out in the FCT will decide.
” I said it more than a year ago — Senator Ireti Kingibe won’t come back as Senator representing the FCT at the National Assembly and I stand by it”, Wike stated.
According to him , going by the emerging political alignments ongoing within the FCT, it will be a mirage to contemplate the return of Senator Kingibe to the Senate.
Like in his refrain during the FCT Council polls, Wike emphasized that performance, loyalty and grassroots acceptance will play significant roles in shaping the political future of actors within the FCT.
Instructively, Wike’s vaunting disposition is coming against the backdrop of growing fears and lack of confidence already expressed by the opposition in the country’s electoral process after the hurried signing into law of the controversial 2026 amended Electoral Act by President Tinubu.
The opposition camp has decried the National Assembly’s rejection of the mandatory electronic transmission clause, despite overwhelming majority of Nigerians rooting for it as a veritable means of stemming election results manipulations .
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