Former Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokubo, has condemned the confrontation between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and a group of military officers over a disputed parcel of land in Abuja.
Naijaonpoint reports that the altercation, which went viral earlier this week, showed Wike in a heated exchange with a naval officer who claimed to be acting on the orders of a former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo (retd.), to restrict access to the property.
The situation quickly escalated into a tense standoff, with Wike insisting that no individual, regardless of military rank, was above the law or could obstruct the enforcement of land regulations in the FCT.
Reacting to the incident in a video statement posted on Wednesday, Asari Dokubo described the conduct of the naval officer as “gross indiscipline” and “a direct affront to civil authority.”
He urged the military hierarchy to take swift disciplinary action against the officer.
In a video on Facebook, Asari said, “I’m not taking sides with Wike, I’m taking sides with what is the law, the rule, and the convention. What happened yesterday, in any sane society, that person would be reprimanded and detained.
“The confrontation with the military man and the Minister of FCT is uncalled for. The Minister is the governor of the FCT and, constitutionally, he is the chief security officer outside the president of the city of Abuja.
“I might not like Wike, our relationships have witnessed ups and downs, but in any sane society that fellow ought to have been court-martialled. It can’t happen anywhere outside Nigeria.
“There is law in Abuja, and nobody has the right to go and develop a piece of property without following the laid-down rules and regulations pertaining to developing properties.
“A military man is subjected to the constitution; he is not above the constitution. If Wike himself did not go there, they would say government officials do not take their work seriously.
“In an executive system of government the bulk at the table of the executive officer l, I didn’t see anything wrong in the Minister going there. The only place I had a problem with him was the language he used when he was leaving.
“Nobody can accept that sort of affront from somebody who, by the law, ought to see you as his superior.”
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