Crises In Rivers State Deepen As Wike Tackles Former Governor Odili

<h4>Crises In Rivers State Deepen<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Nyesom Wike&comma; minister of the Federal Capital Territory&comma; has described former governor of Rivers State&comma; Peter Odili as an ingrate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Wike’s statement was a response to an earlier statement by Odili who said that incumbent governor&comma; Siminalayi Fubara has stopped Nyesom Wike from turning the state to a private estate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Odili who spoke at a Christmas ballad organised by him in honour of Governor Fubara and his family&comma; noted that Fubara summoned an unusual fortitude to confront the quest by Wike&comma; the immediate past governor of the state&comma; to capture Rivers through ferocious&comma; but unnecessary political war&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Odili&comma; his family who hosted the Rivers State Governor and his family to a night of varieties of song and other activities&comma; did so in appreciation of the fortitude and sterling leadership qualities the governor has demonstrated in office&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He emphasized that it is now over 12 months&comma; since the 25th of October 2023&comma; when a fierce existential fight&comma; though unnecessary&comma; was waged against Governor Fubara over the soul of Rivers State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Governor Fubara confronted the challenge&comma; prevented the quest by one man to capture the State as a private estate&comma; emancipated Rivers people&comma; steadied governance and made civil servants and Rivers people happier as it used to be until he left office in 2007&comma;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em> he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Reacting on Sunday at a Special Thanksgiving Service organized by Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly&comma; Hon&period; Martin Amaewhule&comma; at the Church of Nigeria &lpar;Anglican Communion&rpar;&comma; Oro-Igwe&sol;Eliogbolo Archdeaconry Church of the Holy Spirit&comma; Eliozu Parish&comma; Port Harcourt&comma; Wike said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em><strong>What our former governor said is unfortunate&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&&num;8220&semi;This is somebody who is supposed to be an elder statesman and a father&period; He said the president has been able to stop one politician&comma; one man who wants to convert Rivers State to his personal estate&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You remember when I was a governor&comma; Odili praised me to high heavens&period; In fact&comma; he said no governor combined has done what I did&period; Why in 2007&comma; when he left power&comma; he couldn’t be near power because Ameachi was in power&quest; He was gone&period; When I came in as governor in 2015&comma; I brought him back to life&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Continuing&comma; Wike said <em><strong>&&num;8220&semi;Between him and myself&comma; who has turned Rivers State to his personal estate&quest; His wife is a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">Chairman of Governing Council&comma;<&sol;a> his daughter is a commissioner&comma; his other daughter is a judge and he is the general overseer&period; Who has now turned Rivers State to his private estate&quest; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&&num;8220&semi;I am sure if care is not taken&comma; if there is a chance&comma; he can even arrange a marriage for the governor&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&&num;8220&semi;It was his nephew&comma; his late senior brother&&num;8217&semi;s son that was recommended for commissioner&period; He took the slot and gave it to his own daughter&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&&num;8220&semi;Someone who didn&&num;8217&semi;t remember to stand for the son of his late elder brother&comma; is that an elder statesman&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;