Fubara Is My ‘Boy,’ Says Wike

In the midst of the political strife between the two, Nyesom Wike, a former governor of Rivers State, has referred to Siminalayi Fubara as his “boy.”

Although Bola Tinubu, the president’s representative, filed a lawsuit for reparation, Wike, the Federal Capital Territory’s minister, said he was not opposed to the action.

“My son, my boy,” the saying goes. How can we engage in combat? The people I fight are those who want to steal things from their employers.

How will you tell me to make peace and I won’t, I asked the President when I called for peace. In an interview with the BBC Pidgin, he said.

The state experienced a political crisis as a result of Wike and Fubara’s disagreement.

In response, President Tinubu suspended Fubara, his deputy, and the House of Assembly. He also declared a state of emergency in Rivers.

Additionally, he appointed Ibok-Ete Ibas, a retired naval officer, as the state’s sole administrator for the first six months.

Also read: “Do You Even Know If I Want to Go Back There?” In a state of emergency, Fubara speaks.

Different groups in the state staged protests and counterprotests in response to the president’s decision.

11 Peoples Democratic Party governors sued Tinubu’s decision in opposition of his decision in the Supreme Court.

The PDP governors’ lawsuit challenging the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, which the National Assembly argued, had procedural flaws and lacked merit, was later dropped.

The court should have awarded the plaintiffs N1 billion in costs for filing what it called a frivolous and speculative lawsuit, it added.

Fubara, however, stated on May 11 that he was not in a rush to run for office.

Do you even know if I want to go back there, he said during the service of songs held in honor of the late elder statesman, Edwin Clark, in Port Harcourt, the state capital? He claimed that my spirit has already vanished.

Source: Channels TV