Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Tuesday, called on President Bola Tinubu to urgently direct the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, to stop the ongoing demolition of the houses of the poor and vulnerable in the city.<\/p>\n
Frank who made this call in a statement in Abuja, lamented that the minister has engaged in demolition and alleged land grabbing in the FCT as a\u00a0 new means of livelihood by allocating revoked plots of land to himself and his cronies.<\/p>\n
He declared that through the demolitions, the FCT minister has given the President bad name more than any other appointee in the present administration.<\/p>\n
Frank said: \u201cThe minister has continued to cause damage to Mr President\u2019s government by his ill-timed demolitions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will interest you to note that it is alleged that it is a new mode of settlement for Minister Wike.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe pretends to be doing this for the benefit of the President, but all his activities in the FCT is for his personal benefit.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr President, one of the reasons you are called T-Pain is as a result of Minister Wike\u2019s wickedness and insensitivity as well as intimidation and harassment of the residents of the FCT.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor your information sir, the residents of some parts of the FCT have become homeless as a result of his greed and insensitivity.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is worthy to note that Wike has revoked\u00a0 more land\u00a0 than any other past minister of the FCT.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe revoked land is allegedly given almost immediately to his cronies, within and outside government, while he asks the victims to go to court to seek redress, when he knows that he has bought the conscience of the judiciary\/judges as he has continued to give them land as well as build houses for them, especially in the FCT, for reasons not well defined.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll his friends from Rivers State and other parts of the country are beneficiaries of the land grabbing as he has\u00a0 allegedly converted the land in FCT\u00a0 to his personal estate without due process and consultation with the National Assembly, particularly the Senate and its committee on FCT.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will expose wike and his friends, both within and outside government at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Frank, who is the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) Ambassador to East Africa and the Middle East, also accused Wike of equally selling the plots of land to raise money to fight Governor Siminalayi Fubara, instead of focusing on curing the dearth of infrastructure in the FCT, in terms of health, education and renewable energy to generate power for the people of the FCT.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat he is doing in the FCT presently, was exactly what he did in Rivers State. However, my advice for him is that FCT is not Rivers State.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy advice to Mr President is to take action immediately by relieving him of his duty before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you (President) fail to do so, you will have yourself to blame. Take a decisive action against Wike who wants to destroy your government; don\u2019t be silent in the face of injustice and intimidation against the very people you govern.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t listen to his tomfoolery as he\u2019s irrelevant both in Rivers and at the National level. Sack him and you will see how irrelevant he is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Tuesday, called on President Bola Tinubu to urgently direct the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n