₦airaland Forum

Federal Capital Territory (FCT) minister Nyesom Wike on Monday broke his silence on the political turbulence gripping Rivers State, mocking Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s withdrawal from the 2027 APC governorship race and throwing his full weight behind the emergence of House of Representatives member Kingsley Chinda as the party’s candidate.

Speaking with reporters during an inspection tour of major infrastructure projects across Abuja, the former Rivers State governor revealed that a secret political pact brokered by President Bola Tinubu had underpinned the entire drama, disclosing that Fubara agreed to abandon his second-term ambition in exchange for the dropping of impeachment threats against him by the Rivers State House of Assembly.

While Fubara’s eventual withdrawal satisfied the terms of that agreement, Wike was scathing about the governor’s decision to purchase the nomination forms in the first place, describing the move as a breach of political trust and an affront to the president’s repeated peace interventions.

“In the first place, he ought not to have collected the form because the agreement was reached that the impeachment should be dropped, while he should also not talk about a second tenure.

“With collecting form first, he didn’t show sign of gentlemanship. He didn’t show that sign, and that was not expected. We thought that Mr. President have been intervening severally and pleading with the legislature not to continue with impeachment”, he said.

The minister, however, expressed no surprise at the outcome, insisting that Chinda’s emergence was the natural result of his political stature.

“A good product markets itself. Everybody knows that Kingsley Chinda is the material. He’s quite experienced. He has worked with the executive and now in the legislature — you can hear his voice when he was a minority leader of the PDP. I’m sure that he must have been approached by the ruling All Progressives Congress to join them and then get the ticket,” Wike stated.

helinues:
May God help both Fubara and Wike to settle their matter

The kind of politics they play in Rivers state is actually different from other states. I mean in the whole state, no elders to wade into the issue

helinues:
May God help both Fubara and Wike to settle their matter

The kind of politics they play in Rivers state is actually different from other states. I mean in the whole state, no elders to wade into the issue

Pootle:
this wike will meet his water low soon

DEROX:
All I want from God is to leave this country to a saner clime pls answer na

LagosOrigin:
Fubara is really a weakling

Shame shame shame

This humiliation is too much ..

DEROX:
All I want from God is to leave this country to a saner clime pls answer na

Bluntguy:
I just sincerely hope Fubara has an ace up his sleeve because no governor can take the nonsense Wike has been dishing out to him on a daily basis and keep quiet like that, no matter what you have done for me. I will use the instrument of my office and fight you to a standstill. Honestly this Fubara's docility is very irritating.

Tjra:
I've been hearing this since 2022.

Life is not Nollywood

Bluntguy:
I just sincerely hope Fubara has an ace up his sleeve because no governor can take the nonsense Wike has been dishing out to him on a daily basis and keep quiet like that, no matter what you have done for me. I will use the instrument of my office and fight you to a standstill. Honestly this Fubara's docility is very irritating.