Fubara has lost my political support for life – Wike says painfully, angrily

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Friday declared angrily that Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State would never again enjoy his political support.

Speaking against the backdrop of ongoing crisis and strained relationship between him and the Governor, pained Wike fumed; “I will never support Fubara in my political life again”.

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The Minister made this declaration on Channels Television programme, “Politics Today,” even as he accused the governor of publicly lying against him.

Wike said; “Anybody who knows me, it’s not about me. People laboured to put up a structure. People laboured, you wouldn’t have even taken the 50th position. I sacrificed to talk to the Ogonis, and I sacrificed to talk to several other people who let us go this way.

“You turned it that I am asking for N50 billion, N100 billion. You turned up lies against me, I brought you up, put you here. Today, I turned to be over demanding.”

Clearly parrying the PoliticsToday’s question on Governor Fubara automatically becoming his political leader given precedence within the PDP structure, Wike accused his successor of betrayal for openly denying the platform that brought him to power in Rivers State.

He described Fubara’s action as “being unfair”, saying; “In every political family, you run election under people and people believe that we are all together. We must have to keep our political structure.

“There is nobody that has ever said that you will kill your… Your rose through somewhere, why do you deny it? It’s unfair, and you want me to sit down”

For the former Rivers governor, there is a need for any political family to preserve and maintain its structures for relevance within the system.

Explaining the demands made on Fubara, the FCT Minister said he only requested that the governor should not abandon the people that toiled hard for him to get into office.

“We are all humans. Ingratitude is bad. It doesn’t matter what anybody can label it”, he said.

The strained relationship between Governor Fubara and Wike, his erstwhile political godfather and former governor of the state, has thrown thrown the oil rich state into political crisis.

As the conflict heightened last year, 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly loyal to the FCT Minister joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) after dumping the ruling PDP in the State.

The now embattled lawmakers had accused Governor Fubara of starving them of funds, which further deteriorated into a strained relationship and the failed attempt at impeachment.

Unfortunately, in spite of the intervention by President Bola Tinubu which gave birth to an eight-point resolution as well as efforts from Rivers State elders and political stakeholders, the warring parties are yet to find lasting solutions to the contentious issues at stake. [Forefront]