The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barrister Nyesom Wike, has advised the opposition candidates of February 21st, 2026 in FCT Council polls not to waste their resources.
The minister said this during the commissioning of the newly completed 16-kilometre right-hand service carriageway of the Inner Northern Expressway INEX from Ring Road 3 to the Outer Northern Expressway ONEX (Murtala Muhammed Way), also known as the Idu – Zuba road.
Wike said; “We will continue to do the best under the Renewed Hope agenda for the interest of our country, for the interest of Abuja.
“I don’t know, those who want to run elections in the Area Councils, I don’t know what they will preach to the people, but those who are with us, they have the opportunity to tell the people what we have done.
“So, let the people not waste their money. The result is known by what we have shown, so that not when you fail, you would not say you were rigged. No, look at the rigging here now. The projects are the rigging. When you provide what the people want, everything is gone.
“So, those of you who are my friends, I don’t know where you are running. But my friends, we will come out and tell the people, look at the roads, look at the bus terminals, look at the schools. All these works coming now, where are they coming from?”
He said those who are with the president would be running based on their records, and advised that no one should accuse the government of rigging the polls when the results do not go their way, saying with the projects on ground, it is obvious that the election has already been won and lost.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was represented by the Deputy Senate President, Jibrin Barau, who commissioned the road project.
