By Attah Ede
FCT Minister Nyesom Wike has promised N10 million to every councillor who delivers their ward to President Bola Tinubu and other APC candidates in the 2027 general elections.
He made the offer during a Rainbow Coalition stakeholders’ meeting in Kwali Area Council on Monday.
The event was attended by traditional rulers, political leaders and residents.
Wike told the councillors to meet their party leaders, youth groups and associations to get votes in their wards.
He also backed Tinubu’s re election and endorsed Senator Philip Aduda for the FCT Senate seat and Danladi Chiya for the Abuja South Federal Constituency.
He said Kwali, Gwagwalada and Abaji are firmly behind the APC.
He also accused opposition figures of double standards over court rulings.
He criticized the opposition’s reaction when a court voided the ticket of Atiku Abubakar, the ADC presidential candidate.
Reports also stated that same opposition parties praised the courts when they won and attacked them when they lost.
Wike defended the government’s decision to give brand new SUVs to first class traditional rulers in the FCT, rejecting claims that they were bribes.
He said the rulers deserve respect and that critics do not complain when other officials ride in SUVs.
He added that the administration has built more than 270 kilometres of roads in the FCT’s satellite towns, including 95 kilometres in Kwali, and that the projects will be commissioned in December.
He also promised to look into the salaries of FCT councillors, after the chairman of the National Councillors Forum, Gambo Hamza, called his attention to councillors’ N260,000 per month.
