Fubara and Wike,
the former governor of Rivers State, have been at loggerheads over the control
of the oil-rich state.
The Caretaker Committee
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Mr Tony Okocha
has described Governor Siminalayi Fubara as the political investment of the FCT
Minister, Nyesom Wike.
Okocha described Wike as
Fubara’s mentor, saying the latter would not have been governor without the
strong backing of the former.
“The feud between the
governor and his mentor, Governor Fubara is Wike’s political investment,” he
said on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“From civil servant to
the candidate of a party and delivering him in 23 local governments out of 23,
the first in our history, all of these were Wike’s ability to manoeuvre. The
former governor has said, ‘I am not asking you for anything. I am only saying
that you are destroying the structure that produced you.’
“If you are a politician,
no politician will allow his structure to be dismantled. When you do that, it
means that you have no home to fall back to. That is the issue.”
Fubara and Wike, the
former governor of Rivers State, have been at loggerheads over the control of
the oil-rich state.
Although the Rivers
governor survived an impeachment orchestrated by the Martin Amaewhule-led
Rivers Assembly, Wike had vowed to do all it takes to maintain his “political
structure” in Rivers state.
On Thursday, the Court of
Appeal in Abuja dismissed the order of a Rivers High Court which restrained
Martin Amaewhule and 24 others from parading themselves as lawmakers of the
State Assembly.
A three-member panel of
the appellate court led by Jimi Olukayode-Bada, held that the trial court
lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the suit, as such matters can only be
heard and determined before a federal high court.
Reacting to the verdict,
the APC chief said the appellate court judgment on the Rivers Assembly should
be seen as sacrosanct.
He argued that unless a
superior court squashes the verdict – the Supreme Court – the verdict must be
obeyed by all parties involved.
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