Rivers not your inheritance, Dele Momodu slams Wike
Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), came under fire on Wednesday, November 1, from Dele Momodu, the director of strategic communications for the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, for behaving as if he controlled Rivers state.
Momodu said that Rivers State is neither his property nor inheritance.
He said this in a post on his X handle (formerly Twitter).
He said that Wike had many flaws, among which are a lack of anger management, and his forgetfulness that God has been kind to him.
The tweets partly read: “Rivers is neither your property nor perpetual inheritance. There were governors long before you cut your teeth and there must be others after you.
On Wike’s flaws, Momodu wrote: “one tragic and fatal flaw, and yours is lack of anger management. There are other flaws, like forgetting that God has been extremely kind to you and that you will never be God, and so you should beg God to grant you the spirit of humility and the Wisdom of Solomon.”
He recalled Wike’s ascent to prominence as the state’s local government chairman and Chief of Staff, roles that preceded his appointment as a minister in the Federal Capital Territory, claiming that Wike had been granted “divine favour.”
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Momodu said: “From a local government chairman in Rivers state to Chief of Staff, to minister of state education, to governor for eight years and now back to Minister of the Federal Capital Territory…I do not know anyone with your kind of divine favour.
“This should satisfy you but your insatiable hunger and thirst for power is driving you into believing that you must have your way all the time. It would have been nice if you were in private business and running your personal enterprise.
The tweets read: “My dear brother, this now is the crux of the matter. You can’t eat your cake and still have it. You installed a new governor in the PDP. You’re a minister in APC. And you still want to maintain absolute power in PDP.”
Momodu urged Wike to allow the state governor Sim Fubara, “to grow and be a man of his own.”
He concluded: “Please, have a quiet rethink and adjust your overbearing style a bit. Sadly, you’ve allowed Fubara to demystify you.”