Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication and New Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Lere Olayinka, has tackled Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, Bode George, for faulting the minister for the revocation of their party’s National Secretariat land title in Abuja.
Olayinka maintained that the party leaders should be held responsible for the party’s failure to pay ground rent for 28 years, which led to the revocation.
The aide made the assertion in a statement today, responding to Bode George’s criticism of Wike over the revocation of the PDP’s national secretariat land.
Recall the elder statesman had described Wike’s action as a “declaration of war” against the party. Dismissing his claims, Olayinka accused the PDP elders of failing to conclude the purchase of the Wadata Plaza property, which the party had attempted to buy in 2005.
Olayinka emphasised that the land revocation exercise affected 4,794 land titles, including properties belonging to government institutions such as the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission, and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.
He advised Chief Bode George to seek accurate information before making public statements, insisting that Wike was only enforcing the law without bias.
