The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Saturday aimed another jibe at the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara as the two men continued their love-hate relationship.
The former allies parted ways last year over what many described as a battle for control of the state’s resources.
The two men no longer see eye-to-eye despite efforts by stakeholders in Rivers State and beyond to ensure a truce in the interest of the state.
Wike, who spoke at an event organized in his honour by the Ijaw Peoples Congress (IJC) in the state, warned the governor against causing violence in the state.
The minister recalled with pride his role in the emergence of Fubara, an Ijaw man, as the governor of the state in February last year.
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He said: “Let me thank this team for this strategic meeting here today. First of all, when I was approached by Senator Johnson Nsakebor. He was sent by the Rivers Ijaw Congress, that they want to honour me. I asked what the essence of such was.
“Why do you want to waste such money? I need the money. Give it to me. But he said so many people go on television and speak as if they speak on behalf of the Ijaw people. I said okay, I will come and let Nigerians know.
“This gathering here today is a message to those of them in Abuja who don’t understand. So if anybody tells you one day, that the Ijaw people are fighting me. It is not correct. We have some ungrateful people everywhere. A father can have 12 children and one can be an armed robber. Does that mean that the whole family are armed robbers?
“So, all these people going to television to say Ijaw people are fighting me. ask them, all the Ijaw people in the House of Assembly were positioned.
“Who has Fubara made? All the things you see are people who are envious of our growth. They couldn’t do what we are doing today. These are people who we have defeated politically severally. If the opportunity comes again, we will defeat them again.
“I have made an Ijaw man governor of Rivers State. God used us. All of us here had sleepless nights. So who loves Ijaw more? Is it people who come out on television who can not even make their Ijaw brother governor? If they were that powerful, since the old Rivers State, has Ijaw ever become governor? Where are they?
“I have told people that nobody has a monopoly on causing violence. The mere fact that we choose to play according to the rule of law. To be calm and not to turn ourselves into where investors would run away, and that is what we will continue to do.”
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