Wike Not Responsible for PDP’s Land Revocation, Aide Tells Bode George

Nyesom Wike’s aide, Lere Olayinka, has fired back at Bode George, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, for criticizing Wike over the revocation of the PDP’s national secretariat land title in Abuja.

Olayinka argued that the party leaders, not Wike, are to blame for the revocation, citing the party’s failure to pay ground rent for 28 years.According to Olayinka, the PDP was given the opportunity to purchase the Wadata Plaza property in 2005 but failed to pay the required N26.9 million for ministerial consent.

Instead, the party requested a waiver from then FCT Minister Nasir El-Rufai, citing financial incapacity, which was denied.Olayinka also questioned why the PDP failed to pay N7.6 million in ground rent over 20 years for its national secretariat land in the Central Area, despite raising over N21 billion in 2014 for the building’s completion.

He emphasized that the land revocation exercise affected 4,794 land titles, including properties belonging to government institutions, and that Wike was simply enforcing the law without bias.