{"id":78678,"date":"2025-11-13T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78678"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:56:10","slug":"wike-defends-clash-with-naval-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/13\/wike-defends-clash-with-naval-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Defends Clash with Naval Officer\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has defended his confrontation with a naval officer, Lt. A.M. Yerima, over a disputed plot allegedly linked to former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo (retd).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the FCT Executive Council meeting on Thursday in Abuja, Wike condemned what he described as Gambo\u2019s \u201cact of impunity\u201d in deploying serving naval personnel to guard the contested property at Plot No. 1946, Gaduwa District.<\/p>\n<p>He said he intervened after officers of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), were allegedly assaulted while enforcing development regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can I sit as minister when government officials are being beaten up? And I\u2019ll just sit in my office doing what?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Wike faulted the use of security operatives to protect private interests, citing examples of other former leaders like Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Gen. T.Y. Danjuma who, he said, always resolve issues respectfully.<\/p>\n<p>He also criticised Yerima for allegedly insulting police officers at the scene, saying, \u201cNobody talks like that. You call them \u2018bloody police\u2019? These are the same government officials who made you what you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wike clarified that he had no problem with the military as an institution but would not tolerate lawlessness or intimidation of FCTA staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has defended his confrontation with a naval officer, Lt. A.M. Yerima, over a disputed plot allegedly linked to former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo (retd). Speaking after the FCT Executive Council meeting on Thursday in Abuja, Wike condemned what he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-78678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78678","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=78678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78680,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78678\/revisions\/78680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}