Constitutional Lawyer Criticises FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike’s Political Conduct Following the Political Crisis Rocking Rivers State

Paschal Emeka, Abuja | Posted May 20, 2024

The principal partner, Friends Chambers, Prince Orji Nwafor – Orizu has criticised former Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, who is currently the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, over his political conducts, so far.

Making his points while responding to an interview with our correspondent over the weekend, in Abuja, he pointed out that Wike quarreled with the man that made him governor, Rotimi Amaechi; Jonathan and his wife and; the present Governor Sim Fubara of the state.

Reacting to Wike’s justification of decamping of the states 27 lawmakers from the PDP to the APC, he reminded him (Wike) of his statement at a time, when he said anybody who defects from his party to another should be sacked and vacate his seat.

“Now people are saying that agitations against the issue of the lawmakers in the state should be discontinued, until the court takes a decision; nobody should take law into his hands.

“If that is the case, the 27 lawmakers, shouldn’t be taking ultimate decision of impeaching the Governor. They should wait, untill the court delivers judgement.

“They are also saying that Governor Fubara and his group should fold their hands and maintain the status quo, pending the outcome of judgement, but the 27 lawmakers are moving to impeach the Governor, without minding if court will recognize them as lawmakers.

“So if Governor Fubara and his group should maintain the status quo, the 27 lawmakers should also maintain the status quo,” he opined.

When the issue of ungratefulness of Governor Fubara over Wike was raised, with the reason that with the exception of Fubara, other newly elected Governors aren’t quarelling with their predecessors, the lawyer responded thus: “It is because others aren’t making the kind of demand Wike is making.

“He wants to take off: governorship from him; the legislators from him; the permanent secretaries and everything from him, and at the same time, take a large chunk of the money coming in, to his own personal account, leaving the Governor with nothing.

“If all these things are taken away from him, you find out that he has no stake in the office as a Governor, but a stooge.

Wondering if it is Mr President that permits Wike to go to Rivers to cause havoc every weekend and go
back, he said that he expected Mr President to advise him to resign and go back to the state, if he can’t concentrate on his appointment.

Advising Wike to wait for 2027, Prince Orji Nwafor -Orizu reminded him that the person that sponsored a Governor in the last election, can sponsor another tomorrow, even as he reminded him that a person sponsored shouldn’t be seen as a slave.

“From my experience, what happened in Anambra, between Late Mbadinuju and Chris Ngige is the typical example of quarelling with a godfather, which causes a lot of money.
But he (Wike) should know that sponsorship isn’t slavery,” he said.

He advised Gov. Fubara to continue to be loyal to Mr President and concentrate on governance issues and ignore Wike.

While telling the Governor to allow the commission of inquiry he set up to work and prosecute Wike, if found guilty, and leave him, if he is not guilty, he disclosed that the EFCC, the anti graft agency, brought out the names of former governors, Wike’s inclusive, that had questions to answer, over alleged siphoning trillions of Naira and Peter Obi’s name was not there.