In An Open Letter, Kio Amachree Replies Wike Says “Yes, Next President Will Surely Come For Your Head”

Kio Amachree, a Sweden-based Nigerian activist, has responded to Nyesom Wike, the FCT Minister’s assertion on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, at a Media Chat in Port Harcourt, that if President Bola Tinubu loses the 2027 Election, whoever wins, between Atiku Abubakar of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, or Peter Obi of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, would come for his head.

The full text of the letter reads:

An Open Letter to Nyesom Wike: Your Fear is Well Rounded

Mr. Wike,

You have finally said something I can agree with. You told the nation that your biggest fear is President Tinubu losing next year’s election, and that whoever wins — Peter Obi or Atiku — will come for you first. You said, in your own words, “I know they will come for my head.”

Let me assure you, Mr. Wike: your instincts are correct. And let me tell you why.

I, Kio Amachree, am doing everything within my power, and using every connection I have, to make certain that the man you have tied your fortunes to never sees a second term.

I have written to President Trump. I have written to Secretary Kennedy, with whom my family’s history is intertwined. I have written to FBI Director Kash Patel. I have written to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and to the Security Council. I have written to the Prince of Wales, to Boris Johnson, to Lord Cameron — my old school connections put to the service of Nigeria. Every letter says the same thing: examine the record of the man who calls himself President of Nigeria.

And what is that record? It is not my invention. It sits in an American federal courthouse. In 1993, the United States government seized $460,000 from accounts linked to Bola Tinubu as proceeds connected to heroin trafficking — Case No. 93 C 4483, Northern District of Illinois. That is not gossip. That is a court record. On August 28, 2026, the FBI confirmed under sworn declaration that it carried out an investigation into his activities. And on that very same day, your principal filed papers fighting to keep those records sealed.

Ask yourself the question every Nigerian is now asking, Mr. Wike: who fights this hard to hide files if the files contain nothing? An innocent man demands his records be published. A compromised man hires American lawyers to bury them.

You say you think about the President’s re-election when you sleep and when you eat. While you were thinking, your principal is spending three weeks on holiday in Europe as the case closed in around him, and no photograph with the American President materialised.

The man you serve is fighting a rearguard action in a foreign courtroom, and even his loudest defenders are lowering their voices. You have chained yourself to a sinking anchor and you are only now noticing the water.

And a word about Rivers State, Mr. Wike, because this is personal to my family’s legacy even if it is not personal to you. My father, Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree QC, was among the founding fathers of Rivers State — Nigeria’s first Solicitor-General, the first African Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

On his grave and on my ancestors I make you this promise: the accountability that is coming for your principal will not stop at your principal. The emergency rule, the billions, the arrogance — all of it will be examined lawfully, openly, and without fear. Not mob justice. Épuration légale. Courts, records, questions, answers.

So yes, Mr. Wike. Be afraid. Not of assassins — nobody wants your head. Be afraid of something far worse for men like you: due process.

You wanted a fight. Let’s tango.

■Kio Amachree
Stockholm

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