Wike continues lamentation over Fubara’s ‘betrayal,’ reports him to Ateke Tom
By Ishaya Ibrahim
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, is still lamenting what he described as betrayal by Siminalayi Fubara who succeeded him as Rivers State Governor.
Wike and Fubara have been waging covert and overt war over the control of the political structures in all the wards and local governments of Rivers State. Wike suspects that Fubara wants to rejig the structures, which include chairmen of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the ward level up to the state level, and council chairmen.
While hosting Ateke Tom and other Ijaw leaders at his Port Harcourt country home, on Tuesday, Wike repeated his allegation against Fubara, which included that the governor was bent on destroying the ladder with which he climbed to power.
According to Wike, many others are relying on the same ladder to climb to political positions, including in the legislature and executive but he is angry that Fubara was allegedly threatening their ambitions by his action.
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But the Ijaw National Congress (INC) has rising in defence of Fubara.
Calling on Wike to make peace with his successor, for the sake of peace and development of the state, the group which expressed displeasure about the political crisis in the state, said it would always stand on the side of truth and good governance.
In a statement by the President of the group, Prof Benjamin Okaba, INC which commended the people of Rivers State for standing against the planned impeachment of Fubara, urged Wike not to disrupt the current administration in the state.
The statement read, “We urgently call on all political players in Rivers State to play their duty to their constituents and forthwith cease from any further acts capable of slurring the sanctity of the office, institution and person of the Governor of all Rivers people.
“We specifically appeal to Chief Nyesom Wike, to retrace his steps from stoking division of any sort against the government of the day under the guise of protecting his ‘structure’. The political structure to which he refers should not be rolled up with the structure of the government of Governor Fubara as one entity under anyone’s thumb.
“On our part, the Ijaw National Congress worldwide, at all levels and organs across Ijawland and the diaspora should be alive to the sacred responsibility of watching over and protecting the interests of our people anywhere and anytime.”