Property scandal: Stolen Nigerian funds used to buy Florida real Estate, Sowore alleges
Activist Omoyele Sowore has publicly accused Nigerian Minister Nyesom Wike of money laundering, alleging he used his wife—a Court of Appeal judge—to secretly purchase three Florida properties with stolen funds and has reported the matter to the Florida Attorney General’s office for investigation.
It turns out that international thief Nyesom Wike has three different properties in Winter Springs, Florida. All of them were hidden under the name of his wife, Eberechi Suzzette Nyesom-Wike, who also serves as a Court of Appeal judge in Nigeria, and shared out to his children.… pic.twitter.com/wqcmImBQMT
— Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) September 20, 2025
Florida State law prohibits anyone who has stolen or laundered money from using it to purchase property, and international thief @GovWike bought the mansion in cash but claimed his “in-laws’ purchased it for his wife and children. He’s about to find out in a very hard way!… pic.twitter.com/DejEHjn5vn
— Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) September 20, 2025
Florida State law prohibits anyone who has stolen or laundered money from using it to purchase property, and international thief
@GovWike bought the mansion in cash but claimed his “in-laws’ purchased it for his wife and children. He’s about to find out in a very hard way!
Florida’s Attorney General @AGJamesUthmeier must be made aware that money laundering and property trafficking crimes have occurred in his state, that several statutes in the State of Florida directly prohibit this criminal conduct, and Nigeria’s FCT Minister
@GOVWike is about to find out.
Several statutes in the State of Florida directly prohibit what Florida State law prohibits anyone who has stolen or laundered money from using it to purchase property, and international thief @GovWike
bought the mansion in cash while claiming his “in-laws” purchased it for his wife and children. has done, which is illegally concealing ownership of his Florida properties by placing them under the names of his children and wife, who is herself a public official (a Court of Appeal judge) in Nigeria.
WIKE’s crimes, among others, fall squarely under organizing or directing trafficking in stolen property, a first-degree felony under Florida Statute § 812.019, punishable by up to 30 years in prison.
Nyesom Ezenwo WIKE, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory Minister, illegally grabbed land in Abuja for his family, but he could never escape his $2 million illegally acquired mansion, which is a property trafficking crime in Florida, USA.