Wike: Fubara lied against me, I can never support him in this life again

Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has vowed never to support Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State in his political life again.

Wike made the vow on Friday while featuring on Channels Television.

The minister accused the governor of lying against him, saying he (Wike) asked him for N20 billion and N100 billion, respectively.

“I will never support Fubara in my political life again. No, I won’t do that. That’s why people should know me, I am not a man who deals with left hand. I will never do that, and everybody knows me.

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“It’s not about me. People laboured to put up a structure. He wouldn’t have even taken the 5th position. People laboured. I sacrificed to talk to several people.

“He turned it that I am asking for N20 billion, N100 billion. He turned up lies against me. I brought him up, put him there, pushed him there. Today, Wike is over demanding,” Wike said when asked if he will support Fubara in 2027.

He continued: “The governor took an advantage of the presidential intervention and to insult everybody. I’m an appointee of Mr President and people should understand this thing first of all.

“I never had any bargain before I supported Mr President. People should know that clearly. I believe in his capacity, and I believe in equity, fairness and justice. I never hid my intention of what I was going to do.

“When Mr President called, for Christ sake, he’s the president of the country, there are things I shouldn’t accept. But he’s the president and our father by his age. He appointed me, why should I say no?

“What the governor did was to take advantage of that time period. The president said, ‘re-submit your budget and he refused.’ And what he did was to tell people to go to court. I laughed.

“Why would I support a man who didn’t obey the rule of law. Why will I support impunity?”

Governor Fubara has been at loggerheads with Wike, his erstwhile political godfather and former governor of Rivers.

Wike, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), currently serves as FCT minister under the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

At the height of the crisis last year, 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly dumped the PDP for the APC. The lawmakers, led by the Speaker, are loyal to Wike and accused Governor Fubara of starving them of funds.

The lawmakers have also been having a strained relationship with the governor and attempted to impeach him in the heat of the political crisis in the state before President Bola Tinubu intervened.