Nyesom Wike 


The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike has again been accused of land grabbing.  The Niger Delta leader, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor who made the allegations during an interview on Arise Television News on Wednesday urged President Bola Tinubu to probe the Minister. Lori-Ogbebor  made the allegation after the confiscation of her late husband’s property by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) headed by Wike.


"The property belongs to my late husband, Col. Paul Ogbebor", she said  lamenting that her husband’s sweat was about to be taken away by Wike and handed over to one Chinda, an associate of the Minister. 


She claimed that according to her investigations at the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) that the company now claiming ownership of her husband’s property belongs to a three-term House of Representatives member, Hon. Kingsley Chinda, Wike’s kinsman and political ally, who represents Obio/Akpor Constituency in the Federal House of Representative. She claimed the lawmaker is a proxy for the minister.


According to Chief Lori-Ogbebor, her husband, who died during the COVID-19 pandemic, legally acquired the land when his company, Paulson Nigeria Limited worked on the sewage of Abuja after it became the Federal Capital Territory. At the time, she said there were no structures, hence, all landowners were given temporary title certificates.


According to Chief Lori-Ogbebor, several efforts to acquire a certificate of occupancy were in the works, with N10 million paid to FCTA until Wike was appointed as minister.


In November, the FCTA served quit notice to the property owners claiming they were occupying the land illegally.


Chief-Lori Ogbebo faulted the claim, alleging it is a land grabbing scheme of the minister.