Some opposition federal lawmakers, who are under the aegis of G-60, have stated that the recent mass resignation of commissioners from the cabinet of Rivers State Governor Sim Fubara demonstrates that Nyesom Wike, the immediate past governor, had initially hijacked the state government and its resources.
Recall that the Rivers State commissioners for Education and Housing, Professor Chinedu Mmon and Gift Worlu, on Wednesday resigned from Fubara’s cabinet, citing toxic working environment for their actions.
Mmon and Worlu are loyalists to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Wike.
Earlier, two other Wike allies, former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Professor Zacchaeus Adangor, and former Commissioner for Finance, Isaac Kamalu, had also resigned from Fubara’s government.
Reacting to the development, the G60 lawmakers, in a statement by their spokesperson, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, noted that Wike’s fight was about desperation to maintain and hold on to the public purse and organs of the state government.
The federal lawmakers said Wike was not fighting for good governance.
The lawmakers added that Wike’s allies were delusional and lying about resigning from their current workspace which they claimed had become toxic.
They slammed the FCT minister, describing his betrayal and battle with his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, as driven 100 per cent by selfish interest.
They stated that Wike wanted to treat Rivers State as a personal affair with delusions of grandeur and a ferocious sense of entitlement, but Fubara proved to him that he’s all about improving people’s lives, which is the real purpose of governance.
The opposition lawmakers noted that since Wike lost the presidential primary of the PDP in 2022, and subsequently lost out in the selection of the running mate for the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar, he has been vindictive and hellbent on seeing the party messed up, including associating with “questionable political characters just to survive against all the pretentious democratic grandstanding of his years of being in power”.
Assuring that Wike’s plan would fail, the lawmakers urged Fubara to continue his good leadership in the state and ignore people who lack the moral capacity to even work with him, saying if not because of the alleged imposition of the the appointees, “some of them were not qualified to be village union chairmen”.
