By Kingston Magare 5-7-2025
Following allegations that Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike allocated plots of lands to his sons in the Abuja metropolis, the Labour Party has called on President Bola Tinubu to sack the former Rivers State governor.
Reports by Peoples Gazette had revealed that Wike cornered 3,822 hectares of land across the FCT valued at $6.45 billion and documented it to his two sons, Jordan and Joaquin. According to the Labour Party, this is a troubling revelation and President Tinubu must act to demostrate there was still some element of decency in his administration.
“With the troubling revelations emerging from the Federal Capital Territory Administration regarding the indiscriminate allocation of vast swathes of land to his children by the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has a moral obligation – if indeed any semblance of decency still exists in the conduct of this administration – to relieve the minister of his duties without further delay,” said the Labour Party in a statement signed by its spokesperson Ken Asogwa.
Mr Asowgwa noted that the LP expected that the minister would defend himself by setting the record straight but was baffled with the statement by his spokesman that further indicted and exposed Mr Wike’s complicity in the scandal.
“But instead of accountability, we were met with silence – until yet another report surfaced, this time implicating Wike’s second son in a separate episode of illegal land racketeering. In this instance, the defence came directly from the minister himself, who, in a breathtakingly arrogant display, told a bewildered nation that his children, as Nigerians, have every right to apply for and receive land allocations in the FCT.
“By this admission, Mr. Nyesom Wike has openly confessed to allocating thousands of hectares of public land to his own children – an act that smacks of abuse of office, conflict of interest, and a total disregard for ethical governance.
“At the very least, Tinubu must demonstrate that public office is not a private estate by immediately relieving Mr. Wike of his position. Anything less would be a tragic endorsement of impunity.”
But the President Tinubu administration is unlikely to respond to the call by the Labour Party. Rather than make a public statement, a staff of the Federal Capital Development Authority, Hassan Mairiga was detained by the police for eight days for allegedly leaking the info on the land grab by Wike.