Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has stated that former President Goodluck Jonathan has not called him to inform him of any plan to contest the 2027 presidential election.

He made the remark while answering questions during a media parley with journalists in Abuja on Friday.

When asked about speculations that Jonathan was being pressured to return to the presidential race, the minister said;

“You’re the one telling me here. Jonathan has never told me; he has never called me one day that, look, I’m being pressured to run, what’s your thinking? If he calls me and asks me, I will be able to tell him my mind and what I feel.

“I will not because you people put something on the pages of the newspapers — just like you said they flew me out of the country — then, I now assume it’s correct.”