The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, landed in Port Harcourt on Saturday, to a tumultuous reception despite warnings and threats from loyalists of Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
Honourable Boma Goodhead, a member of the House of Representatives, and other protesters, had dared Wike to step foot into Rivers State, vowing not to allow him disturb the state’s peace.
They called on President Bola Tinubu to intervene, warning Wike to stay away. But Wike, accompanied by Senator Barry Mpigi, Senator Allwell Onyesoh, Minister of State, Petroleum, Heineken Lokpobiri, Rivers State House of Assembly members, and local government chairmen, returned to Rivers State, defying the warnings.
As Wike defied threats and returned to Rivers State, a video of Fubara being hailed by a live band in the same way Wike was idolised months ago surfaced.
Months ago, the live band and hype men, who accompanied Wike to occasions, interspersed his speech with words of adulation to him and mockery of his political foes.
A similar form of adulation emerged on Friday as Fubara commenced the construction of a 20,000 housing project, which provided the same platform Wike almost regularly used to “pepper” his political enemies with the reprise of the live band.
In a related development, Timi Frank, a political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress, called on the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, and Director-General of DSS, Yusuf Bichi, to urgently investigate Wike over alleged complicity in the killing of a DPO, Bako Angbashim, in Ahoada Division, Rivers State.
The activist insisted that all federal lawmakers whose names were mentioned by Goodhead in the killing must also be investigated. He also called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the alleged diversion of $300 million from Rivers State’s IGR.
|Arise News
