Wike admitted that the crisis in Rivers which has caused the burning of a part of the House of Assembly is a battle for political relevance.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has stressed the importance of holding his political base in Rivers State to maintain his political relevance.
Speaking on Tuesday while receiving South-South leaders in his office, he maintained that once he loses his base as a politician, he has lost his relevance politically.
Twenty-four lawmakers loyal to Wike on Monday signed a notice to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The allegations against him have not been made public.
Confirming, however, that the crisis in Rivers which has caused the burning of a part of the House of Assembly is a battle for political relevance, Wike said: “All of us want to be politically relevant; all of us want to maintain our political structure.
“Is it not your political structure? Will you allow anybody to just cut you out immediately? Everybody has a base. If you take my base, am I not politically irrelevant?”
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Both Wike and Fubara are of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) although the former is a cabinet member in the government run by the All Progressives Congress.
Wike noted that internal wranglings are common in politics and will be settled using the party’s mechanisms.
“In politics, there are a lot of internal wranglings,” he said.
“But to come out and say ‘Oh they want to do this against me, it will not work.’ I had every power then to say where this thing is going. So, when things are wrong, you ask questions. It is a party affair. The party knows how they resolve their own mechanism, it is not an ethnic affair.
“Our party is coming to it, that is what I will say. Every politician has his own interest,” the former governor added.