Wike Lied, Fubara Never  Accepted Not To Seek Re-election – Tam-George

By Adesina Soyooye

Austin Tam-George, a  former Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, has disclosed that the Minister for the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, lied in his recent monthly press interview when he declared that Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, said before President Bola Tinubu, that he would not run for a second term in office.

Tam-George said that Fubara never accepted to such an agreement and that it is a fabrication by Wike.

Recall that Wike had disclosed during the Media outing that Fubara  said before President Tinubu during a reconciliation meeting that he was not going to seek a re-election to a second term in office. Wike, therefore, posited that Governor Fubara was being “clever by half” when it was disclosed that a group of Rivers State Elders had purchased the 2027 Governorship Election Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms for him.

Recall, also that Wike, Fubara’s estranged political godfather, had sworn that Fubara will never get a second term in office for daring to disagree with him.

But Tam-George, in an interview, put a lie to Wike’s claims that part of the outcome of the reconciliation before the President was that Fubara will not seek a second term in office. According to the former Commissioner, nothing of that nature came up; there was no such agreement, and no such agreement was  signed.

He stated that even if there was any private political understanding, such agreement cannot overide the Nigerian Constitution.

Tam-George emphasized that the Nigerian Constitution gives every elected governor the right to seek a second term if he/she so desires. Therefore, he argued, if Fubara decides to seek a re-election  and eventually appears on the ballot, his fate rests with the people through a democratic process.

Tam-George: “I can tell you that no such agreement exists. It’s a completely fictitious fabrication by the FCT minister. No such agreement exists.”

In a bid to stop Fubara, Wike, who insists he is a staunch PDP member, and who leads both the PDP and the APC in Rivers State  under what he calls a Rainbow Coalition, has already positioned two Governorship aspirants  against 2027 – one for the PDP and the other for the APC under which Government he serves as a Minister.