The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) minister, Nyesom Wike has promised to fight to a standstill to maintain his political structure and relevance in Rivers State even if the heavens fall.
The former Rivers governor stated this in Abuja on Tuesday after the governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the party’s National Working Committee had converged.
Wike said; “Anybody who knows me knows too well: what I’ll never take is threat. You know I will not agree. If heaven will come down, let heaven come down so that everybody will be at rest”.
He added, “Let’s do things right. He said they should bring N20 billion every month; that’s politics. But nobody said this when I was fighting. If you like, accuse me. I won’t even have sleepless nights because, as far as I’m concerned, the right thing must be done.”
Mr Wike’s latest resolve defied President Bola Tinubu’s intervention in the political tussle between him and his successor, Governor Siminalayi Fubara, on Tuesday.
Wike while speaking to newsmen said;
“In politics, there are lot of internal wrangling. But you’re not going to say that because there are lots of internal wrangling, they’re not going to settle among themselves. I was the instrument. I had every power then to say where things should go”.
“When things are wrong, you ask questions. It’s a party affair. I don’t feel threatened. I’ll tell the truth and nothing but the truth.”
The minister added, “It’s a party affair, party knows how they resolve their own mechanism. It’s not an ethnic affair. Our party is looking into it. That’s what I’ll say. Every politician has his own interests. I don’t want to go into details. All of us are one.”
In a notable turn of events, lawmakers from the Rivers House of Assembly, led by Speaker Martin Amaewhule and known associates of Mr. Wike, initiated impeachment proceedings against Mr. Fubara and suspended the Majority Leader, Ehie Edison.
This effort, however, faced a counteraction, resulting in the impeachment of Mr. Amaewhule and the election of the previously suspended Majority Leader, Mr. Edison, to assume the role.
|Peoples Gazette