{"id":18065,"date":"2026-01-12T04:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/18065\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:08:07","slug":"apc-needs-political-heavyweight-like-wike-buharis-ex-aide-on-sack-of-fct-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/18065\/","title":{"rendered":"APC needs political heavyweight like Wike &#8211; Buhari&#8217;s ex-aide on sack of FCT minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former media aide to the late ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad, has disclosed that the All Progressives Congress, APC, needs a political heavyweight like the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad described Wike as very bold, strategic, and unapologetically decisive.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remark in reaction to Wike\u2019s comment that only President Bola Tinubu can sack him.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Obi-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State on Sunday, Wike said Tinubu can sack him when he no longer has anything to offer.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister, who was reacting to calls by critics that he should be sacked, said the people of Rivers State should be proud of his works in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ahmad posted on X: \u201cThe ruling All Progressives Congress needs a political heavyweight like Nyesom Wike, very bold, strategic and unapologetically decisive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former media aide to the late ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad, has disclosed that the All Progressives Congress,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1931,122,1205],"class_list":{"0":"post-18065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-apc","9":"tag-nigeria","10":"tag-wike"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}