Wike: Abaji would receive 100 million naira if Tinubu wins everywhere
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Leadership, P.M. News and Tribune Online
The Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, has reaffirmed the bonus of 10 million naira for each ward where Bola Tinubu wins in 2027. Abaji, which has ten electoral wards, would receive 100 million naira if the president wins everywhere, according to Leadership.
Wike repeated the Rainbow Coalition’s offer on Tuesday in Abaji, at a consultative meeting of APC and PDP officials aimed at mobilising support for Tinubu’s re-election. The meeting also backed the former Senate Minority Leader, Philip Aduda, a Senate candidate, and Danladi Chiya, a candidate for the House of Representatives for Abuja South. The minister presented the bonus as a way of boosting grassroots mobilisation and compared it to sports bonuses: "When Nigeria plays a match, they are told: score a goal, get $50,000; win the match, $300,000." He added: "If you win your ward for Tinubu, come and collect your reward."
Wike warned that officials unable to win their own ward would not sit at the coalition’s table, and set the goal of winning all 135 polling units in Abaji. He also urged voters not to repeat what he describes as the mistake of 2023, blaming the territory’s outgoing senator for not staying in touch with her constituents. He said the territory must not only match Rivers State in electoral performance, but surpass it.
The minister also attacked Peter Obi, the NDC candidate, who he said is running away from the country’s problems, unlike Tinubu. He announced a meeting with the territory’s youth on Wednesday, promised to resolve the electricity problem in Abaji before 2027 and presented this meeting as the last of his tour of the six area councils.
