Tinubu Might Have to Fly Home From France to Play Referee Between Wike and His Own Governors

So President Tinubu is in France, minding his business, probably enjoying a glass of something nobody at home would judge him for, and somehow the drama back home still finds him. Let me explain what's actually going on, because the headlines are making it sound more complicated than it is.

Here's the gist: Wike, our very correct Minister of the FCT, who is still technically a card-carrying member of the PDP even while driving the APC bus around, launched something called the "Rainbow Coalition." No, it's not what you're thinking. It's a political alliance Wike says exists purely to help Tinubu win re-election in 2027. The small detail he left out? Nowhere in that plan did he promise to help any other APC candidate, governors, senators, nobody. It's a coalition built for one person, and everyone else can find their own way.

Understandably, the APC governors, led by Governor Uzodimma, who's basically the group admin of the Progressive Governors' Forum, are not having it. Their position is simple: you don't get to pick and choose who you support like you're serving jollof at a party and skipping certain guests.

Wike, being Wike, did not back down. He called the governors "politically lazy," and named two of the, Uzodimma and Kwara's AbdulRazaq, directly, no subtlety, no private message, just straight to the group chat.

Then he dropped the real cliffhanger: "If they know what I know, they wouldn't be shouting." Nobody has gotten a part two yet.

Now the APC's own campaign council has publicly begged Tinubu to leave France and settle this before it costs the party in 2027. Meanwhile, the rest of us are just watching to see who apologizes first, or if this ends, as these things always do, with a stiff "we are one big family" press statement by Monday.