FCT Minister Nyesom Wike has said Nigeria currently has no strong opposition, while predicting the emergence of a larger political coalition around President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wike made the remarks in a video shared on X by Lere Olayinka, his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The minister was asked about a possible opposition alliance led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, with Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke potentially joining their side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wike responded by questioning the strength of the opposition and said Nigerians should expect a larger \u201cnational rainbow coalition\u201d<\/strong> for Tinubu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The comments came after Adeleke visited the Presidential Villa to present his Certificate of Return to Tinubu following his victory in the Osun governorship election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tinubu congratulated Adeleke and urged him to use his second term to promote reconciliation, peace, unity and inclusive governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With political negotiations and alliance-building expected to intensify ahead of 2027, Wike\u2019s comments are likely to fuel further debate over the emerging balance of power between the ruling party and the opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FCT Minister Nyesom Wike has said Nigeria currently has no strong opposition, while predicting the emergence of a larger political coalition around President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ahead of the 2027<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow7J_NDA:productID":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trendsmill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_1003.jpg?fit=1290%2C708&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendsmill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}