By Joe Udo
PORT HARCOURT (CONVERSEER) – Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has boasted that he and his loyalists are completely in control of Rivers amid the political crisis and faceoff between himself and Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
Wike stated this on Saturday during a reception organised to honour him by his supporters and political allies at Ogu, Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area of the state, stressing that despite the lingering dispute between him and Fubara, who was once his protege, he is still in charge of Rivers State.
He boasted that, despite Fubara and other politicians’ attempts to undermine him in various ways, his supporters had nothing to worry about.
“When God promotes you in life, you’ll go back and say, ‘God, I thank you.’ I can tell you, go home and sleep very well with your two eyes closed. We’re in charge.”
Wike, who also made the same boast during the official launching of the Renewed Hope Ambassadors, a platform meant to mobilise political leaders across party lines in the state in support of President Bola Tinubu’s re-election, held at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium.
The former Governor of Rivers said no force in the state can stop the movement, as there were earlier speculations that the stadium would not be open for the event.
“Let me say, and I stand to be corrected, that those who worked with us from the inception of 2014, when we mounted the idea of the governorship of the state, none of them have disappointed us.
“Those of them that we cannot tell their story are those who were latter-day converts. They were not the original part of the planning of me becoming the governor of Rivers State,” he added.
