FCT Perm. Sec. vows to deal with Wike, says “Abuja is not Rivers or Port-Harcourt”

The Permanent Secretary of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr Adesola Olusade is alleged to have vowed to make the Ministry ungovernable for the Ministerand former governor of Rivers State H.E Nyesom Wike.
Olusade, who some staff of the FCT are said to have protested against earlier in the year, is believed to be setting traps for the Minister, a move they noted is meant to frustrate Wike from achieving his set targets.
The permanent secretary is to have boasted that “Abuja is not Rivers or Port Harcourt and that he will make sure that Wike calms down as soon as possible.
He has worked under Controversial circumstances in the Ministries of Sports as well as at the Niger Delta development Commission (NDDC)
The PS is, who is due to retire from service next february is believed to be fond of Jetting out of the Country at least twice a month, were he holds meetings with those who are bent to slow down the fast pace of the new Minister.
He is said to have also been the brain behind those clamoring for and FCTA indogene as Minister in the FCTA.
A source told our correspondent at the weekend in Abuja that, Olusade is believed to be working with a former Minister of state of the FCT to scuttle the good plans Wike has for the people of the Federal Capital.
“Let the security Agencies compel him to come with his International Passport and explain all the Trips he has made to London, UK since May this year. Are they all official trips, he should explain. Did he obtain any permission from the Head of The Civil Service before traveling outside the Country?”
While alluding that this is not the first time the FCT PS is being found wanting, “It could be recalled that, in 2021 there were allegations of extremes and impunity against Mr. Adesola Olusade and the Director of Procurement, Ibrahim Gusau Ibrahim in alarmingly disturbing proportions.
The FCT ministry is a signpost of the federal government considering that it possesses almost equal status with the thirty-six states of the federation, but led by a minister appointed by the President unlike the states that have governors elected by the people.
Looking closely at the activities of the ministry, most times, attitudes of some of its officials appear as if it runs reverse policies from the presidency.
According to the source, It was shocking to read, on 14 July, 2021 in Daily Trust, on page 31, a notice of intention to commence committal proceedings against the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Mr. Adesola Olusade and Director of Procurement, Ibrahim Ibrahim Gusau which suggests executive rascality and impunity of the two officials.
In Nigeria, contempt of court is punishable under Section 133 of the Criminal Code; Section 274 (1) (b) of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance (amending section 41 (1) (b) of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, 1923) and Section 21 of the Native Courts Ordinance.
In the notice dated July 12, 2021 addressed to the Permanent Secretary of FCTA, signed by Kalu Kalu Agu, Counsel to Centre for Reform and Public Advocacy (CRPA), a non-government organization, the group categorically emphasized that the two public officials were foisting a ‘fait accompli’ on the court by craftily attempting to destroy the subject matter of the said suit pending before the court which has become a common tactics of intimidation against the vulnerable class by public officeholders.
According to the report, CRPA had dragged the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA) and the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) before the Federal High Court, Abuja in a Suit FHC/ABJ/CS/1585/2020 premised on fraudulent and illegal award of contracts and usurpation of the constitutional duties of local council.

It was also observed that the Bureau of Public Procurement; a federal agency under the presidency, has shown commitments to respect the rule of law and maintain status quo pending the hearing and determination of the said suit. The uncontrolled and unrestrained intimidations of the two officials of FCTA must be checked. The committal proceeding is in order.
The FCT is the third ministry after Sports and Niger Delta where Mr Adesola Olusade would be posted to since he attained directorship level, and he is always fond of saying nobody could sack him until he puts in 35 years in service or turns 60 years of age.
The source disclosed that, something urgent must be done about him, before he pulls the spanner on the good plans of the Minister and by extension the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration adding that “Olusade’s impunity must stop before he derails the good intetions of the Tinubu Presidency”.