FCT Minister Wike has dropped a fresh bombshell amid controversy with Odili.
NewsOnline Nigeriareports that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has accused a former Governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili, of encouraging Governor Siminalayi Fubara to disobey President Bola Tinubu’s peace agreement on the state crisis.
This Nigeria news platform recalls that the battle for the political control of the state between Fubara and his successor has been raging since 2023 despite the intervention of party stakeholders and Tinubu.
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In the wake of the crisis, Fubara and Wike’s camp signed an eight-point peace deal that Tinubu and other stakeholders, including Odili, brokered at a crucial meeting in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
However, the peace deal fell apart, with Fubara alleging that he was ambushed into signing a peace deal with Wike’s camp.
Speaking at an event in Port Harcourt on December 28, Odili commended Fubara for preventing Wike from turning the state into his private estate.
Odili, a two-term governor of Rivers State, accused Wike of self-interest.
In response, during a reception organised to host Rivers State stakeholders on Friday, Wike blamed Odili for the failure of the peace agreement signed between his camp and Fubara.
He said, “Odili said somebody is converting Rivers State to his personal estate and we have now come to show statistics that it is not correct. The man who is converting Rivers State to a personal estate is you, and to crown it all, you are now the general overseer.
“They said Tinubu should be careful, but Tinubu is not like you. Tinubu called Rivers people, your elder statesman (Odili), supposedly. You are Tinubu’s colleague, the President’s colleague, and Mr President read this thing (peace agreement) to them, and you read it and came back home.
“Ordinarily, what you (Odili) should have done was to call Mr President back and say, ‘Mr President, I have tried, we have implemented A, B, C, D, E, it remains F, G, H. Is there any way we can meet again to reconcile these F, G, H?’ Never, rather you encouraged him (Fubara) to disobey everything Mr President said.”
Wike also stated that he is unapologetic for working against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2023 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and the party’s former chairman, Uche Secondus.
He added, “When I said Secondus, you will not be chairman again, yes, I did it. In 2023, they said Atiku was coming, I said where? There was nothing I was not offered. I told PDP I would not support Atiku because I am not a second-class citizen. I must support the South to produce a President. Even though I know their offer was wayo (fake).
“I ran for the local government election in 1999, and up until today, I have never lost an election, and nobody I have supported has lost. I have no regret in supporting Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Wherever you are, pray for Mr President. We will continue to support him. It will be better this year. Mr President is taking tough decisions but for the interest of the country.”
