Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has dismissed the chances of Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in the 2027 general election, labelling him a “social media candidate.”

Wike made the remark during a media interactive session held on Thursday in Abuja, where he spoke on a range of political developments and national issues.

The former Rivers State governor said Obi’s support base is largely online.

Interviewer: Why don’t you support Peter Obi?

Wike: No, he has no chance to winning election. You people like this kind of social media candidates. I don’t do social media candidates.

Interviewer: But he won Abuja and got 6 million votes?

Wike: I sit down as a politician, and I analyse the candidate who is likely to win. In politics, it’s not always a right that okay, this is the best candidate.

Nigerians today, in their politics, so many factors come in and I have always told people this… Whether it is correct or not, is a different thing.. look at how Tinubu won. Mind you, whether APC likes it or not, it was very turbulent for Tinubu to have scaled through that election. His own Party administration, you could see, people don’t want to speak the truth, before that election put in things that would have made him fail election woefully.

The fuel crisis, the Naira issue, it was terrible. No Party in Government at that time will bring such policy when you know you are running election but everything was done and he survived it. So that’s how you will know there are people, first of all, God is on their side and two, they know this game.
You must give it to them.”