Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication and New Media to Nyesom Wike, has stated that most members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are unaware that Wadata Plaza does not belong to the party. Speaking on *The Morning Show* on Arise Television on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, Olayinka disclosed that the property is actually owned by former Senate Leader, Senator Samaila Mamman. Wadata Plaza, located in Wuse Zone 5, Abuja, serves as the PDP’s national headquarters. However, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, a PDP member, recently revoked its land title due to the party’s failure to pay ground rent. The minister also revoked the title for the party’s unfinished national secretariat in the Central Area Business District of Abuja. PDP leaders have condemned the move, calling it a politically motivated attack by President Bola Tinubu’s administration to weaken the opposition. Defending the revocation, Olayinka explained that PDP never owned Wadata Plaza, despite efforts to acquire it in 2005. He claimed that when the party approached then-FCT Minister Malam Nasir El-Rufai to purchase the property, they were asked to pay ₦26.9 million but failed to do so. Olayinka said, “PDP moved to buy the property from Senator Samaila in 2005, and after that, they wrote to the Minister of the FCT, Malam El-Rufai, a member of the PDP at that time, saying that we were buying this property, asking for the minister’s consent, which is the normal thing you do when you’re buying a property. A response was made to the PDP, saying that you have to pay a fee amounting to N26.9 million in 2005. “The Chairman of PDP then, Vincent Ogbulafor wrote to the FCT minister saying that money is too much. Imagine PDP at that time, the party in power, saying it does not have N26 million to pay, and El-Rufai insisted that the PDP must do the right thing, just as Wike is doing now.” With the revocation of the property’s land title, Olayinka said the building now belongs to Senator Samaila.