Zamfara Governor Dauda Lawal has asked FCT Minister Nyesom Wike to make his political position clear, saying he cannot back the APC while also supporting other parties.
Lawal spoke during an interview with Channels Television’s Inside Sources on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York.
The issue centres on the Rainbow Coalition, a cross-party platform linked to efforts to gather support for President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 re-election. Wike, a PDP member, supports Tinubu but says the PDP should still contest governorship and legislative elections.
Wike has also said the coalition is not an APC project but a platform bringing together politicians from different parties who support Tinubu.
Lawal said APC governors want political actors to be clear.
“Our message is very very clear, be on one side, you can’t be on two sides. If you are in APC, please come out and support the APC, not you are supporting APC here and you are supporting some other political parties somewhere else,” he said.
He said the governors would not change their position.
“We maintain our stand and the message is very clear. He can speak, he can say whatever he wants to say, but our position has been very clear, APC all the way from head to toe,” Lawal said.
Lawal confirmed he was asking Wike to join the APC and said he would discuss the matter with Tinubu after his working vacation in France.
“It’s something I will discuss with the President when he comes back. Let there be a clear line where this guy belongs to. It’s either he is in APC or he is out, simple. So I go with my brothers, the governors.”
