Former Governor of Rivers State and current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has revealed how he fell for Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s gentle mien, during the build up of 2023 governorship election in the state.
Wike, while addressing a crowd of supporters, in Port Harcourt over the weekend, said the governor displayed a high level of pretence and deceived him [Wike] to work towards him becoming the governor.
Currently there is no love lost between Wike and Fubara. Their rift has degenerated into serious political crisis, even to the situation where President Bola Tinubu had to intervene.
Tinubu’s intervention however seen in many quarters, especially among the elders council in the state, as unnecessary, which gave room for unconstitutional episode in the state.
Expressing his deep regret at the occasion, Wike said: “You (Fubara) said State Assembly people should not be independent, but you want to be independent. Continue to be independent. Continue to save the democracy of Nigeria. If they like, let them do as they’re doing; if they get to any court they have in the state, let them continue. Let them continue.
“We’ll never be intimidated by that. So let nobody be afraid. Every day, they say they’re doing thanksgiving. They were lucky they didn’t show this early. When we’ve finished winning for them, from polling units to tribunal, from tribunal to court of appeal, they now came saying we want to remove them at Supreme Court.
“Can you imagine? That’s how they collect money from them. They appointed somebody as a judicial consultant. Shame, shame, shame.”
With the latest outburst from the FCT minister, iv seems the crisis is seriously taking toll on him.
WesternlifenewsNG recalls Wike, early in January, disclosed that he has no regrets making Siminalayi Fubara the governor of Rivers State.
According to him, he and some leaders of the state picked and worked for Fubara’s emergence as the governor noted that the decision was taken to ensure the unity of the state.
