Paul Ibe, spokesperson for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has lashed out at FCT minister Nyesom Wike for lying in the church after grabbing Abuja lands for his children.

In a statement posted on Facebook on Sunday, Mr Ibe derided the FCT minister, describing him as drunk who staggered into the church to tell lies on the pulpit.

“The land-grabbing, 40-year-old whiskey-guzzling Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, staggered into church today — not to seek forgiveness but to turn the altar of the Most High into a political soapbox,” Mr Ibe said.

Mr added “What is utterly abominable, however, is the desecration of the sacred altar with partisan bile, as Wike shamelessly did today. It is written: “Take these things away! Stop making My Father’s house a place of commerce!” (John 2:16 AMP). But in Wike’s hands, the house of God became a theatre of lies, vengeance, and drunken arrogance.”

Citing Peoples Gazette exclusive stories exposing Mr Wike’s massive land looting rackets, Mr Ibe said the FCT minister ought to have used his appearance in church to seek forgiveness.

“Perhaps he should have used the moment to repent for the impunity with which he has been allocating prime Abuja lands to his sons, in what now resembles a feudal monarchy masquerading as public service. According to credible reports from the Peoples Gazette, this self-proclaimed democrat of a government by the father, for the sons, had first denied these transactions. Now, cornered by truth, he has resorted to intimidation — ordering the arrest of a civil servant from the FCDA for allegedly leaking documents that exposed his abuse of office,” Mr Ibe said.

At the Anglican Church in Asokoro, Abuja, on Sunday, Mr Wike dismissed coalition of opposition politicians and their adoption of African Democratic Congress as official party for 2027 as a selfish agenda to oust President Bola Tinubu out of office.