{"id":63512,"date":"2025-03-29T21:22:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63512"},"modified":"2025-03-30T05:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T05:51:31","slug":"land-revocation-not-a-ploy-to-suppress-opposition-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/29\/land-revocation-not-a-ploy-to-suppress-opposition-wike\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Defends Revocation of 4,794 Land in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has dismissed allegations by the Peoples Democratic Party that the revocation of its land title in Abuja was a deliberate move to stifle opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Abuja on Friday during a visit by officials of the Body of Benchers, Wike clarified that the action was strictly due to non-payment of ground rent for over ten years.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that PDP, despite generating billions from nomination forms, failed to settle its N7.6 million obligation for its National Secretariat land in the Central Area.<\/p>\n<p>He further revealed that Wadata Plaza, where PDP\u2019s headquarters is located, is not officially registered under the party but in the name of a senator who has defaulted on ground rent for 28 years.<\/p>\n<p>Dismissing claims of political bias, Wike stated that the revocation affected 4,794 defaulters, including institutions like the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Central Bank of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He urged all landowners, including the Body of Benchers, to fulfill their financial obligations, warning that no defaulter would be spared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent\u00a0 The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has dismissed allegations by the Peoples Democratic Party that the revocation of its land title in Abuja was a deliberate move to stifle opposition. Speaking in Abuja on Friday during a visit by officials of the Body of Benchers, Wike clarified that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63529,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63512\/revisions\/63529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}