Lere Olayinka, a media aide to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike has alleged that some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP) are answerable for the revocation of the occasion’s headquarters by the FCT Administration.
In a press release launched on Saturday, March 22, Olayinka stated PDP leaders like Bode George did not pay the bottom lease on the land title for 28 years.
He stated, “Individuals’s Democratic Celebration (PDP) elders like Chief Bode George, must be blamed for the occasion’s failure to pay Floor Lease for 28 years, which is the explanation for the revocation of the PDP’s nationwide secretariat in Abuja, and never the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike.”
Olayinka within the assertion stated it’s unlucky that leaders like George who have been within the PDP’s Nationwide Working Committee however did not conclude the acquisition of the Wadata Plaza Nationwide Secretariat of the PDP had the audacity to seem on tv responsible Wike.
Additional stating the Wadata Plaza – presently being utilized by PDP as its nationwide secretariat – will not be owned by the occasion, Olayinka stated the constructing belongs to Senator Samaila Kurfi, who purchased the property from Wadata Enterprise Nigeria Restricted.
He added that in 2005, the PDP had made an try and buy the property at a N26.9. million provide however the cash was by no means paid.
He stated the occasion wrote to the then minister of FCT, Nasir El-Rufai, additionally a member of the PDP for a waiver however he (El-Rufai) insisted that the fee should made.
“And if the proprietor of the constructing didn’t pay abnormal N2.8 million as 28 years Floor Lease, who’s responsible?” Olayinka queried.
On the proposed web site for the PDP’s nationwide secretariat which is positioned in Central Space, Olayinka stated the occasion additionally did not pay N7.6 million – an accumulation of 20 years floor lease – regardless of elevating over N21 billion for the development of the constructing in 2014.
He added, “If Chief Bode George had sought crucial data and refrained himself from appearing out of hatred for Wike, it could have been recognized to him that additionally affected by the revocation have been authorities owned establishments.”