{"id":218029,"date":"2025-12-25T03:11:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T01:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-2027-makinde-wike-in-war-of-words\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T03:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T01:11:31","slug":"nigeria-2027-makinde-wike-in-war-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-2027-makinde-wike-in-war-of-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 2027 &#8211; Makinde, Wike in War of Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>| Wike promised Tinubu he would hold down Peoples Democratic Party &#8211; Oyo Governor | Makinde loyal to himself, not party, minister fires back<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The rivalry between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde took a new twist yesterday as the former political allies shot barbs at each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Makinde threw the first jab at Wike during a press conference, where he accused the FCT minister of working for President Bola Tinubu ahead of 2027 by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512240248.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| Wike promised Tinubu he would hold down Peoples Democratic Party &#8211; Oyo Governor | Makinde loyal to himself, not party, minister fires back The rivalry between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde took a new twist yesterday as the former political allies shot barbs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,50239,257,4687,393,254,6618,8730,14539],"class_list":["post-218029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-makinde","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-war","tag-wike","tag-words"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}