{"id":231854,"date":"2025-07-05T04:54:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T04:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/video-so-what-wike-defends-use-of-rolls-royce-channels-television\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T04:54:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T04:54:27","slug":"video-so-what-wike-defends-use-of-rolls-royce-channels-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/video-so-what-wike-defends-use-of-rolls-royce-channels-television\/","title":{"rendered":"[VIDEO] &#8216;So What?&#8217; Wike Defends Use Of Rolls-Royce \u2022 Channels Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[VIDEO] &#8216;So What?&#8217; Wike Defends Use Of Rolls-Royce \u2022 Channels Television<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>FCT Minister Nyesom Wike says those questioning his source of wealth know little about his background and has defended his usage of a Rolls-Royce.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, had questioned Wike\u2019s source of wealth during Thursday\u2019s edition of Channels Television\u2019s <em>Politics Today<\/em>, especially when he was spotted with the luxury car.<\/p>\n<p>However, a day after, Wike said he was born into a comfortable family before taking up political leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a Rolls-Royce. So what? Nobody gave it to me. B<span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">efore harmattan, there was cold. <\/span>I didn\u2019t come from the same background as Rotimi Amaechi,\u201d the FCT minister said on Friday\u2019s edition of the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a student, I was using a Mercedes-Benz. My father was the general manager of many companies. I will not say [my family was] too rich like the Dangotes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> Respect Is By Integrity, Honour Not Age, Wike Replies Amaechi<\/p>\n<article class=\"post post__default post__sumry sumry__vert size-md sumry__valign-none col-md-6 col-lg-4 \">\n<div class=\"sumry-inner\">\n<p>The minister\u2019s comment is the latest in the feud between Amaechi and his successor in office as Rivers State governor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch Wike\u2019s response to those questioning his source of wealth below:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;I Bought Rolls Royce, So What! Nobody Gave Me&#039;, Wike Replies Amaechi\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_7gbCZCdtpY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Amaechi,Tinubu,wike<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2025\/07\/04\/video-so-what-wike-defends-use-of-rolls-royce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[VIDEO] &#8216;So What?&#8217; Wike Defends Use Of Rolls-Royce \u2022 Channels Television \u00a0 FCT Minister Nyesom Wike says those questioning his source of wealth know little about his background and has defended his usage of a Rolls-Royce.\u00a0 A former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, had questioned Wike\u2019s source of wealth during Thursday\u2019s edition of Channels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[173],"tags":[266,179,314],"class_list":["post-231854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amaechi","tag-tinubu","tag-wike"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}