An Open Letter To Jordan And Joaquin Wike: What Exactly Did Your Father Give You?

By Kio Amachree

Jordan and Joaquin Wike,

I am writing to you, not to your father. You are grown men, educated abroad, with a law degree between you. You can read a certificate of occupancy. So I will not talk over your heads. I will ask you directly.

What did Nyesom Wike give you while he held public office?

Here is what has been published. Peoples Gazette, working from allocation records it says it obtained from your father’s own ministry, reported that companies bearing your names received roughly 3,822 hectares of land across the Federal Capital Territory in under a year. Town planning officials consulted by the newspaper put the potential value at about 6.45 billion dollars.

Jordan, the newspaper reported that you and Jordan Farms and Estates Ltd received about 1,740 hectares, valued at roughly 2.85 billion dollars. Twelve hectares in Maitama. Ten in Guzape. One hundred and fifty-eight in Sheretti Cheche. A plot in the Central Area that had previously been allocated to the Austrian mission. Jordan Farms and Estates Ltd, according to the report, was incorporated on 10 October 2024. The Maitama allocation followed within weeks.

Joaquin, the figures reported against your name are larger still. About 2,082 hectares to Joaq Farms and Estates Ltd between October 2024 and May 2025, in Bwari, Gaduwa and elsewhere, with further allocations in Maitama and Asokoro. Joaq Farms and Estates Ltd was registered on 10 October 2024, the same day as your brother’s company. Seven days later, on 17 October 2024, it reportedly received 350 hectares, file number 155882, certificate of occupancy 0000162. The newspaper’s officials estimated the total at up to 3.6 billion dollars.

The Gazette further reported that no ground rent, title registration or survey fees were paid on these assets, which, if true, would put the transactions squarely against the Code of Conduct for Public Officers in the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution.

Then there is Florida. The same newspaper reported that three houses were transferred to your father’s children: a four-bedroom home at 113 Springcreek Lane to Jordan, originally bought for 535,000 dollars in cash; a four-bedroom home at 209 Hertherwood Court to Joaquin, bought for 459,157 dollars in cash; and a third, at 208 Hertherwood Court, to your sister Jazmyne, bought for 465,000 dollars in cash.

Now let me be fair to your father, because fairness is what separates accountability from abuse.

He denies it. He has said his children, like any Nigerians, have a legal right to own property. He has specifically denied allocating thousands of hectares in Maitama and Asokoro to his sons and has challenged his accusers to produce empirical evidence. His spokesman conceded that Joaq Farms and Estates Ltd received agricultural land in Bwari but denied that the minister allocated land to his children as alleged.

Fine. Then this is the easiest scandal in Nigeria to close.

Publish the documents.

Every hectare of FCT land that you, or any company in which either of you holds a beneficial interest, has received since your father became minister. The applications. The dates. The allocation letters. The certificates of occupancy. The fees paid, with receipts. The beneficial ownership of Jordan Farms and Estates Ltd and Joaq Farms and Estates Ltd. And the source of the funds behind three cash purchases in Florida.

That is three questions. What did you get? What did you pay? Where did the money come from?

If everything was lawful, disclosure vindicates you and embarrasses your critics. If it was not, then land that belongs to the Nigerian people should go back to the Nigerian people.

Understand that the request has already been made through proper channels and ignored. The Human and Environmental Development Agenda petitioned the ICPC to investigate. Civil society groups have issued formal demands. A probe announced from the Presidency in June 2025 has never published a report. Your father’s answer to all of it has been insults and a challenge to produce evidence, when the evidence, if it exists, sits in files that you two can open with one phone call.

And now a question neither newspaper can ask you.

Do you ever sit your father down and tell him it is enough?

You see what Nigerians see. You hear the anger. You know how ugly Nigerian politics has become. There comes a moment when loyalty to a father means telling him what he does not want to hear.

Tell him Rivers State is not his. My own father was among the men who built that state in 1967, and none of them believed they were building an inheritance for their children. Tell him Abuja is not his. Tell him public office is a trust, not an estate. Tell him Nigerians are citizens, not subjects. Tell him power is temporary and records are permanent.

You have decades ahead of you. Do not spend them carrying your father’s unanswered questions. He is the minister; you are the ones whose names are on the companies. When he leaves office, the files stay, and the files carry your names, not his.

This is not about humiliating two young men for the accident of who their father is. It is about the land of a nation, and who ends up owning it.

So I put it to you plainly, Jordan and Joaquin Wike: what did you receive, what did you pay, and where did the money come from?

Put the documents on the table. Let Nigerians read them. Let the evidence speak.

Rivers State is not anybody’s inheritance. Abuja is not anybody’s family estate. Nigeria belongs to Nigerians.

Kio Amachree

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