Tension looms as Sowore releases fresh evidence exposing Wike and wife

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Omoyele Sowore, the former African Action Congress presidential candidate in the general elections of 2023, has released a new stack of documents that reveal how Eberechi Suzzette, the wife of Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, gave three properties in Florida, USA, to their three children.

The human rights activist posted Quit Claim Deeds on his X (formerly Twitter) account, transferring the impacted properties to the FCT minister’s children, Jordan, Joaquim, and Jasmyne.

According to Sowore, who has been engaged in a verbal altercation with the FCT minister, the homes in Winter Springs, Florida, were transferred in 2023, just before Wike was set to step down as governor of Rivers state.

A quit claim deed is a legal document that swiftly transfers real estate ownership without ensuring a valid title. They are frequently used as the simplest means of transferring property titles amongst family members.

The activist said that Wike’s wife, a current judge at Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, had purposefully concealed the assets under her name.

He said that there may be a chance the clergyman owns a fourth property in Florida at 113 Spring Creek Lane, Winter Springs, given the recent discovery.

“These are the Quit Claim Deeds that Nyesom Ezenwo Wike – CON, GSSRS, and his wife Eberechi Suzzette Nyesom-Wike, a Court of Appeal judge, used to transfer three different Florida properties into the names of their children Jordan, Joaquim, and Jasmyne,” Sowore’s post partly read.

“These transfers were done in 2023, but Mr. International Thief said he was not aware. With this discovery, it is now also clear that Wike has a fourth property in Florida at 113 Spring Creek Lane, Winter Springs, FL 32708.

“This explains why Wike boasted on Channels Television that he “didn’t know” his wife and children owned mansions in the United States. But the international thief has now been caught in his own web of lies. By the way, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike – CON, GSSRS was due for follow-up treatment for a new ailment and chest infection that recently kept him in London for two weeks, which he was going to do under the guise of attending the UN General Assembly with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu but yesterday the VP, Kashim Shettima was asked to lead the delegation with 7 other ministers, Wike decided to bail out and several state governors have also been told to stay back for now. There is no hiding place anymore.”

Explaining the usage of quitclaim deeds, Sowore claimed that dishonest authorities take advantage of them “to launder stolen wealth.”

He further wrote, “A Quit Claim Deed is one of the simplest property transfer documents in U.S. real estate law. It allows one person, the grantor, to sign over whatever ownership interest they may have in a property to another person, the grantee. Crucially, it offers no guarantees the grantor makes no promise that the title is valid, clear, or even legitimate. In short, it transfers “whatever interest” the grantor has, nothing more.

“Ordinarily, quit claim deeds are used for routine family transactions, a husband adding a wife to a title, parents transferring property to children, or heirs resolving paperwork after an inheritance. Because they bypass warranties and detailed title checks, they are cheap, quick, and often escape close scrutiny.

“But this simplicity is exactly why kleptocrats love them. Corrupt officials exploit “quit claim deeds” to launder stolen wealth. By transferring properties into the names of wives, children, or other relatives, they hide their true ownership. On paper, the transactions appear to be ordinary family planning. In reality, they are deliberate strategies to conceal the original source of illicit funds. No public sale, no market-value exchange, no visible money trail, just the quiet concealment of corruption beneath harmless looking paperwork.

“This is precisely what Wike has done. Properties in Florida, purchased with the proceeds of corruption, were quietly moved into the names of his wife, herself a senior judicial officer in Nigeria, and their children. The pattern is a textbook case of laundering stolen Nigerian wealth into U.S. real estate, using quit claim deeds as legal camouflage.

“Under U.S. law, such transactions amount to money laundering and trafficking in stolen property, serious crimes punishable under both state and federal statutes. They are also subject to asset seizure and forfeiture under the U.S. Department of Justice’s Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.

“Wike’s Florida deeds are the very trail of corruption, the very evidence that US prosecutors need to unravel his kleptocracy and reclaim assets stolen from the people of Nigeria.”

Lere Olayinka, the FCT minister’s social media aide, was not immediately available for comment on the matter, although he had previously claimed that his principle had never denied his wife’s riches.

In a Facebook post on Sunday, he wrote, “Someone is sourcing PUBLIC DOCUMENTS that are readily available on the websites of institutions concerned and making noise about them.

“The question is, did Wike deny that his wife has properties in the US? No, he didn’t. ”

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