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The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has finally spoken on the crisis in Rivers State amid the plot to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports this is just as governors elected under the platform of PDP meet with him today.
The FCT minister disclosed this while receiving South-South leaders at his office on Tuesday, Wike, a former Rivers State Governor, emphasised the importance of holding his base to maintain his political relevance.
He maintained that once he loses his base as a politician, he has lost his relevance politically.
Wike explained that no amount of calumny levelled against him would make him lose sleep, adding that the right thing must be done.
“All of us want to be politically relevant; all of us want to maintain our political structure,” the minister said.
“Is it not your political structure? Will you allow anybody to just cut you out immediately? Everybody has a base. If you take my base, am I not politically irrelevant?”
The relationship between Wike and Fubara is said to have gone sour following the threat by the Assembly to impeach the governor.
Some have accused Wike of being the brain behind the impeachment plot. The Rivers Assembly Complex was turned into a confusion theatre after fire gutted a section on Sunday night
There was also some drama on Monday morning with the removal of principal officers in the Assembly as gunshots rent the air.
Fubara had stormed the Complex on Monday to see the level of the damage and alleged that he was shot at by the police, an allegation the police said was being probed.
Both Wike and Fubara are of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). But Wike noted that internal wranglings are common in politics and will be settled using the party’s mechanisms.
“In politics, there are a lot of internal wranglings,” he said.
“But to come out and say ‘Oh they want to do this against me, it will not work.’ I had every power then to say where this thing is going. So, when things are wrong, you ask questions. It is a party affair. The party knows how they resolve their own mechanism, it is not an ethnic affair.
“Our party is coming to it, that is what I will say. Every politician has his own interest,” the former governor added.
Meanwhile, the governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, known as PDP Governors’ Forum, will today (Wednesday) meet the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, for reconciliation and mediation purposes.
The forum made this known in a statement issued by its Director-General, Cyril Maduabum, on Wednesday, November 1, 2023.
Maduabum noted that the governors’ decision to visit Wike was reached at the forum’s meeting in Abuja on Tuesday.
”The Chairman of the Forum, Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, hereby requests member Governors to converge at his residence, No 1 Miriam Aloma Muktar Street, Asokoro, opposite Rivers State Governors Lodge at 10.45 am to accompany him for the visit,” he noted.
Maduabum added that the meeting will hold at the FCT Minister’s office by 11 a.m.
The latest development is coming after some members of the Rivers State House of Assembly moved to impeach the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara.
This led to chaos in the state on Monday as the governor and his loyalists stormed the Assembly complex in protest against the plot.
Also speaking on the crisis, the PDP Governors’ Forum Chairman and Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, said President Bola Tinubu had intervened in the crisis.
Mohammed, while briefing State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday, said: “We had a closed session where very serious national issues were discussed that has serious security implications. That is the problem emerging in Rivers.
“The president in his usual leadership position intervened and then it will appear that there will be peace in that respect.
“He has showed that he is a president for everybody.”