Prominent northern activist and good governance advocate, Bello Galadanci, popularly known as Dan Bello, has claimed that the United States Senate, House of Representatives, and the European Union are currently examining reports on what he described as “Wike’s destruction of democracy in Nigeria.”
In a video posted on his X handle on Thursday, Dan Bello said his concern was not borne out of partisanship but a duty to defend Nigeria’s democratic institutions.
According to him, Nigeria is at a critical juncture where “the choices of a few powerful men may determine the fate of 250 million people,” with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, at the centre of the controversy.
“This is not about personality; it’s about a pattern, about power, about the systematic erosion of democratic norms.
“If left unchecked, this process could drag Nigeria into the same darkness engulfing parts of the Sahel,” he said.
Citing a document allegedly submitted to the US Senate, Dan Bello claimed that Wike has become one of the most powerful unelected figures in Nigeria’s political landscape, using state resources, the judiciary, and security agencies “not to strengthen democracy but to stifle dissent and weaken the opposition.”
He further accused Wike of fracturing opposition parties, including the PDP, Labour Party, and ADC, manipulating party structures, weaponizing the police, and exerting undue influence on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
“This is not politics. This is the suffocation of multi-party democracy. Nowhere is this clearer than in Rivers State,” he stated.
