A man identified as Allen Wogu, who claims to be the classmate of Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has debunked the minister’s assertion that he made so much money early in life and was driving a Mercedes Benz car as a student at the University of Port Harcourt.
Wike who made the claims while speaking on a Channels Television program last week, had said allegations of corruptly enriching himself levelled against him by former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi were false as he was a self made man who started making money at a very young age.
Dismissing the allegations of corruption, Wike said he personally purchased his Rolls-Royce and did not receive it as a bribe or political favour, stressing that no contractor or associate gave him the vehicle.
“I have a Rolls-Royce. So what? Nobody gave it to me. I bought it. People ask, ‘With what money?’ Let me tell you — I came from a comfortable background,” the FCT Minister had said.
He went on to state that his father was a general manager of several companies and that he enjoyed a decent lifestyle even as a student.
“As a student, I was driving a Mercedes-Benz. So don’t let anyone tell you I suddenly became wealthy. I didn’t come from poverty,” he added.
But while puncturing Wike’s claims in a Facebook post on Thursday, Wogu said Wike lied about coming from a privileged background as he was a struggling student who could not even afford a bicycle not to talk of driving a Mercedes-Benz while studying political science and education in the late 1980s.
“The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. I wonder how someone who has classmates who, by God’s grace, are alive would come on national television and claim he was driving a Mercedes Benz car between 1986 and 1990 in the University of Port Harcourt, where he studied political science/education,” Wogu wrote in the post.
“Jesus Christ, please have mercy. This guy wore sandals with buckles and never rode on a bicycle throughout our 4-year sojourn, and I have over 4000 witnesses. So this is how he has been lying? Too shocked here,” he added.
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