{"id":67459,"date":"2025-06-06T13:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T13:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67459"},"modified":"2025-06-06T13:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T13:58:17","slug":"wike-vows-crackdown-on-abuja-tax-defaulters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/06\/wike-vows-crackdown-on-abuja-tax-defaulters\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Vows Crackdown on Abuja Tax Defaulters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Cross Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Wike has declared that tax defaulters in Abuja, regardless of their status, will face renewed enforcement actions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Thursday at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile Ife, Wike said leadership requires courage and insisted that wealthy individuals in highbrow areas like Maitama and Asokoro must fulfill their civic obligations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No poor man lives in Maitama. You will pay if you don&#8217;t want to, and I will touch you,&#8221; Wike said, referencing the May 26 sealing of properties including the PDP headquarters over unpaid ground rent.<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed criticism from the PDP and reaffirmed his commitment to enforcing tax laws without fear or favour.<\/p>\n<p>Wike also criticized Nigeria&#8217;s history of poor leadership, blaming the nation&#8217;s developmental setbacks on unprepared and reluctant leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cross Stone Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Wike has declared that tax defaulters in Abuja, regardless of their status, will face renewed enforcement actions. Speaking on Thursday at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile Ife, Wike said leadership requires courage and insisted that wealthy individuals in highbrow areas like Maitama and Asokoro must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":67460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67459","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=67459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67461,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67459\/revisions\/67461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}