{"id":123744,"date":"2025-11-12T08:08:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=123744"},"modified":"2025-11-12T08:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:08:53","slug":"wike-sowore-accuses-military-of-misusing-security-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/wike-sowore-accuses-military-of-misusing-security-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike: Sowore Accuses Military of Misusing Security Resources\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Oscar Okhifo<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Human rights activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 election, Omoyele Sowore, has criticised what he describes as the growing trend of diverting national security resources to protect personal interests rather than the country.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sowore\u2019s remarks follow a heated confrontation earlier on Tuesday between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike and a military officer in Abuja over\u00a0 land dispute.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a video circulating online, the soldier, who insisted he was acting on \u201corders,\u201d refused to grant Wike access to the disputed property.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The minister, visibly agitated, shouted at the soldier, questioning his authority.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWho are you? Order from where and from who?\u201d Wike was heard yelling, before unleashing several unkind remarks.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The officer, however, maintained calm throughout the altercation but did not allow the minister access to the landed property.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Wike eventually turned away with his entourage, he fired back, \u201cTell your principal to go ahead and start developing it then, let\u2019s see.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reacting, Sowore said the incident underscores a deeper systemic issue in which national security apparatus is manipulated to serve powerful individuals rather than its constitutional duty to safeguard the nation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also referenced a previous case involving Wike as governor of Rivers State, when he allegedly obstructed Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operatives attempting to arrest a judge accused of corruption,\u00a0 a move widely condemned as shielding wrongdoing.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Sowore, such actions fuel public distrust in authority and reinforce a \u201cculture of impunity\u201d among Nigeria\u2019s political elite.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oscar Okhifo Human rights activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 election, Omoyele Sowore, has criticised what he describes as the growing trend&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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