{"id":78657,"date":"2025-11-13T12:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78657"},"modified":"2025-11-13T12:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:08:28","slug":"atiku-denies-gifting-suv-to-naval-officer-after-clash-with-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/13\/atiku-denies-gifting-suv-to-naval-officer-after-clash-with-wike\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku Denies Gifting SUV to Naval Officer After Clash With Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has debunked reports alleging he gifted a Toyota SUV to Lieutenant Ahmed Yerima, the naval officer involved in a recent altercation with the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday, Atiku\u2019s Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, described the claim as \u201ccompletely false and baseless,\u201d urging the public to disregard it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis Excellency Atiku Abubakar did not gift Lt. Ahmed Yerima or anyone else a brand-new Toyota SUV,\u201d Ibe clarified.<\/p>\n<p>The false report, which circulated on social media, alleged that Atiku rewarded Yerima after his confrontation with Wike over a disputed land in Gaduwa, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>A viral video had shown the minister and the officer in a heated argument, with Yerima insisting he was protecting naval property.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has since drawn public reactions, with calls for calm and institutional respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has debunked reports alleging he gifted a Toyota SUV to Lieutenant Ahmed Yerima, the naval officer involved in a recent altercation with the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike. In a statement on Thursday, Atiku\u2019s Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, described the claim as \u201ccompletely false and baseless,\u201d urging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78657","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=78657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78659,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78657\/revisions\/78659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}