Governor Fubara To Wike: “Continue To Make Mistakes

By Adesina Soyooye

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has urged his predecessor in office, Nyesom Wike, now the Minister for the Federal Capital Territory to “continue to make mistakes.”

The Governor was apparently responding to Wike’s apologies to Rivers State people on Sunday that he made a mistake in picking and presenting Fubara to them as his successor. After the apology, Wike assured the people that he would correct the mistake at the appropriate time.

But in a response to Wike on Monday, while swearing in his new Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Fubara said whether Wike made a mistake or not, the fact is: “I am here today as the Governor.” He then wished Wike to continue to make mistakes.

The Governor also had a response to the claim by the former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice that the Governor could have been a level 14 officer in the Civil Service but for Wike. He said that it was Wike who promoted Fubara from being a DFA, Permanent Secretary, State Accountant General to a Governor.

But Fubara dismissed the former Commissioner as one serving his master and so, talking nonsense and carelessly to please his master.

He said he was the Chief Accountant of Rivers State  on Level 13 in 2010. “If in 2010 I was the Chief Accountant of the State on level 13, where would I have been in 2023?”

The Governor, also, noted that he is the only Governor in Nigeria who takes insults from even a Local Government Chairman and keeps quiet. ” I do that because I don’t want to reduce myself to their level. I wish them well.”