A businessman, Safwan Garba, has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations that Jordan Nyesom-Wike, son of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, collected $2.1 million on the promise of facilitating the allocation of 60 hectares of land in Abuja.
In the petition dated December 11, 2025, and signed by their lawyer, Hamza Dantani, the petitioners alleged that Jordan claimed to have his father’s approval to facilitate the acquisition of 30 hectares of land every in Katampe and Guzape districts of the FCT.
They accused him of fraud, acquiring cash by false pretences, prison misappropriation and conversion of the funds allegedly paid for the proposed land allocations.
According to the petition, Jordan bolstered his claims by putting a phone name to his father within the businessman’s presence, ostensibly to tell him in regards to the proposed transaction.
“Our client met Jordan Nyesom-Wike in London, following which the two developed a rapport,” the petition acknowledged.
It added that after returning to Nigeria about three months earlier than the petition was filed, Jordan met with the businessman and provided to facilitate the acquisition of land within the FCT.
The petitioners alleged that Jordan represented himself as somebody who routinely facilitated land allocations and had the information and approval of the FCT minister.
“To strengthen these representations, Jordan placed a telephone call to his father in the presence of our client, ostensibly informing him of the intended transaction,” the petition acknowledged.
The businessman additional alleged that Jordan promised to safe 30 hectares of land in Katampe and one other 30 hectares in Guzape.
The petition claimed that Jordan demanded and acquired $2 million, allegedly to be delivered to his father to facilitate the allocations, whereas an extra $100,000 was paid as his private facilitation payment.
The funds, totalling $2.1 million, have been allegedly made in money on October 17, 2025, at Jordan’s insistence and within the presence of two witnesses, Adamu Sani and Aliyu Sarki.
According to the petition, Jordan was accompanied by one Onor Sandy, whom he launched as his good friend and affiliate.
The petitioners alleged that Jordan promised to ship the land allocations inside one month however did not fulfil the settlement after receiving the cash.
They additional claimed that he subsequently turned unreachable, including that the United Kingdom phone quantity he had supplied was now not accessible, and that efforts to contact him by means of people identified to the minister had proved unsuccessful.
Based on these allegations, the businessman urged the EFCC to analyze Jordan, arrest and interrogate him, and, if the investigation established prison legal responsibility, prosecute him.
The petition cited alleged offences, together with acquiring by false pretences beneath Section 1(1) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act, fraud, prison misappropriation, and conversion of funds.
The petitioner additionally expressed readiness to offer witnesses and different info that might help the fee in its investigation.
The petition reportedly included an acknowledgement of cost, signed by Jordan Wike, as supporting proof.
Speaking to journalists on the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, Ibrahim Waru, counsel to the claimants, mentioned the EFCC had acknowledged receipt of the petition however had but to take motion.
Waru defined that the petition was meant to set off an investigation into the alleged prison facets of the dispute, which he mentioned have been separate from the civil proceedings already earlier than the FCT High Court.
Meanwhile, the FCT High Court has fastened December 1 for the continuation of the listening to within the civil go well with, marked CV/008/2026, filed by the claimants in opposition to Jordan.
Jordan has denied the allegations, telling the courtroom that he was not in Nigeria on the date the claimants allege they handed him the cash.
To help his place, he tendered his worldwide passport, sustaining that he travelled exterior Nigeria along with his American passport throughout the interval in query.
The dispute has additionally prompted a separate transfer by the claimants, who petitioned the Chief Judge of the FCT High Court, searching for Justice Silvanus Oriji’s elimination from the case over an alleged relationship with the minister’s household.
The allegations in opposition to Jordan stay the petitioners’ claims, whereas the civil proceedings and the reported EFCC petition are separate processes. Any prison legal responsibility could be topic to investigation and willpower by the suitable authorities and courts.
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