The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has dared the Senator representing the FCT, Ireti Kingibe to visit the neighboring towns and campaign against his role in President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet if she is truly confident in her political standing.

In a statement on Tuesday, Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the FCT Minister, said Kingibe was already blinded by the looming prospect of her electoral defeat and therefore unable to recognize the positive transformation taking place in Abuja and the FCT’s satellite towns.

In response to comments made by Senator Kingibe on a television program on Monday, where she described President Bola Tinubu’s appointment of Wike as FCT Minister as his “biggest mistake,” Olayinka said, “it is funny that someone who is impersonating by using the name of Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe, who is no longer her husband, believes that jumping from one television station to the other to disparage the FCT Minister will revive her dead political career.”


He also highlighted the recent infrastructural progress under Wike’s leadership, challenging the Senator to visit communities such as Saburi, Dei Dei, Kabusa, Ketti, Yangoji, Pai, Gomani, Gishiri, Kwaita, Yebu, Sukuku, Ebo, Ushafa, and others that now boast of new roads, and tell residents there that Tinubu made a mistake in appointing Wike.

He also pointed to longstanding projects finally seeing progress, including the relocation of traders at Apo Mechanic Village to a permanent site after over 15 years, as well as the construction along Apo-Wasa road.

“In Abaji, Federal Capital Territory University, Abaji (FCTU), a university established close to 15 years ago, but was abandoned, is now witnessing a massive infrastructural development.

“Also, general renovation of 22 schools has been done in the last 12 months while renovation of more than 40 others is ongoing.

Describing Kingibe as “someone already blinded by the spirit of a coming defeat,” Olayinka alleged that she is aware she will not be able to retain her Senate seat in 2027.

The reason is, she knows that in 2027, she won’t be able to retain the Senate seat she accidentally got in 2023. She knows that the factor that got her to the Senate is no longer available and she is desperate to use attacks on Wike to gain political leverage.

“Unfortunately, Wike is not in the comity of frustrated politicians like Ireti ‘Kingibe’ who is treating her aides like slaves, refusing to pay their wages and entitlements for months,” Olayinka said.

He advised the Senator to “get real” and stop what he termed impersonation.

“At 71, a woman should have a clear identity, use her legitimate names, and stop using the name of a man she is no longer married to.”

The Independent National Electoral Commission has disclosed that a total of 295,856 Permanent Voter’s Cards were uncollected in Ondo State.

The electoral commission, however, stated that 1,757,205 PVCs had been collected as 2,053,061 voters had already registered with the commission.

The. Resident Electoral Officer in the state, Mrs Oluwatoyin Babalola, stated this in a chat with journalists on Tuesday at the headquarters of the commission in Akure, the state capital, on the preparation for the forthcoming continuous voter registration exercise.

According to her, voter registration was a critical aspect of any democratic process as it serves as the gateway to electoral participation and the primary means through which eligible citizens are enfranchised.

She said, “The commission has approved the resumption of the Continuous Voter Registration exercise nationwide.

“Online pre-registration will start on the 18th August 2025, while the In-person registration will follow on the 25th August 2025.

“The primary objective of the forthcoming CVR exercise is to provide opportunities for the following categories of citizens.

“Citizens who have just attained the age of 18 and others who are eligible to register.

“Those who were unable to register during previous exercises.

“Citizens who intend to transfer their registration from one location to another.
Voters who had issues during accreditation at the previous election.

Registered voters who require an update to their data. Citizens with defaced, damaged or lost PVC.

“Data of registered voters in the state include total registered voters, 2,053,061, the PVCs collected 1,757,205, while a total of 295,856 is uncollected.”

The REC noted that the CVR exercise would continue until August 2026; however, it will be temporarily stopped in December 2025 to facilitate the harvesting and processing of data collected from August to December 2025.

The INEC boss expressed the commission’s unwavering commitment to transparency, professionalism, and inclusivity throughout the registration process.

” We remain dedicated to strengthening our partnership with the media.

“We will continue to provide you with timely access to information as we improve our communication channels with you for the success of the CVR,” Babalola stated

The Kano State Chairman of the New Nigeria People’s Party NNPP, Suleiman Hashimu Dungurawa, has debunked speculations that the Party’s 2023 Presidential Candidate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is decamping to ADC.

NNPP claimed that the questions of Kwankwaso joining ADC or any other party is just a miscalculation by politicians who are afraid of the leader of Kwankwasiyya Movements.

Dungurawa, who was speaking to Newsmen in Kano, Monday, hinted that Kwankwaso is not one of those pushover politicians who take decisions without appraising and deeply thinking about their consequences.


“Don’t forget, Kwankwaso today is the Political Leader of Northern Nigeria, and every Politician specifically in this region is looking up to him, so it will be malicious to say he is decamping out for now”.

The Chairman, asked, “why are Nigerian politicians panicking about Kwankwaso’s movements? let them calm down, the times of decision is yet to come, we are people who are too calculative. we don’t just take actions with due consideration”.

While answering questions of the fact that Kwankwaso was seen in places talking to other camps, Suleiman Dungurawa, said, “as a politician who has a PhD in the field, do you expect him to hide himself or dessert people, no way he can talk to anybody but that does not mean anything, is a normal things”.

He said, “those so called followers and supporters of Kwankwaso who are jittery about where he is going, they are pretending followers, but the genuine ones know that Kwankwaso doesn’t take any decisions without talking to them and seeking advice from as low as a ward supporter”.

Talking about the performances of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf in the last two years, the NNPP Chairman, said opposition are today overwhelmed by the works of the Governor to the extent that you don’t hear their voices.

“Governor Yusuf’s heavy infrastructural development overwhelmed the opposition they can’t even show their presence anywhere in Kano, that is why we are proud of what he is doing”.