• Allegedly for backing Atiku’s presidential bid

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has authorized immediate revocation of the land allocated to Senator Lee Maeba in Port Harcourt over the latter’s support for the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

Wike has been at loggerheads with Atiku while insisting that the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, should resign and pave the way for a southerner to take the position, for regional balance in the party’s hierarchy.

A letter from the Permanent Secretary in the State Ministry of Lands and Survey to Maeba dated November 2, 2022, notified him of the revocation.

The letter was titled “Allocation of Plot 20A Golf Course Layout, Old GRA Port Harcourt” and signed by the ministry’s Acting Director/HOD, Acquisition, Valuation and Compensation, Ochiagha Onyebuchi, on behalf of the permanent secretary.

The letter read: “I am directed to inform you that your allocation at Plot 20A Golf Course Layout, Old GRA, Port Harcourt has been cancelled as shown on the attached Rivers State Official Gazette No. 22 Vol. 58, dated 20th September, 2022. Please accept the warm regards of the Permanent Secretary.”