“I Knelt Down Many Times (For Wike) To Beg” – Gov Fubara

By Adesina Soyooye

• I don’t owe Wike, fulfilled all agreements with him. ●There is nothing I have not done for peace ●Wike should let go

The Governor of Rivers State,  Siminalayi Fubara, has lamented the havoc wreaked on some Local Government Councils Area Headquarters in the State.

Following the conduct of the Local Government Elections on Saturday, October 5. and the swearing-in of the winners – Chairmen – on Sunday, October 6, 2024, by Fubara, the new officers who went to resume on Monday were met with mayhem.

Protesters, made up of those opposed to the election, mainly factions of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, loyal to FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, invaded some Council Headquarters and set them on fire. The Local Councils which Headquarters were razed include Eleme, Ikwerre, Emohuo, Degema, among others.

The arsonists, in some LGA’s, were led by known politicians, including, at least, a member of the House of Assembly loyal to  Wike and a former Chairman of a Local Government Area.

In the case of  Ikwerre LGA, the Governor pointed out that the former Chairman had just built the buildings they burnt down. He said they were his (the former Chairman’s) legacy project. Fubara then asked: “How can you lead people to destroy what you built? Why go this low?”

Speaking on the hell which literally engulfed the State, Fubara expressed shock  at the level people could descend to destroy the State.

Fubara spoke to Channel Television’s Seun Okinbaloye Monday night on the crisis.

On why the relationship between him and his immediate predecessor, political godfather, and now Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike  went sour, he said it was not something he would want to discuss but attributed it to “power.”  He said he did not  fail to keep any of the agreements both of them reached. He said he kept to all the agreements they had.

Fubara also revealed that there was nothing he had not done in order to smoothen his relationship with Wike, who he still referred to in the interview as “my oga”. The efforts he made, Fubara revealed, included kneeling down for Wike a number of times just for peace to reign.

But he added: “I am not a coward. I know what to do. But I will not because I want peace in the State. I want progress in Rivers State. The only thing I can tell the former Governor if I see him is “to let go”.