The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom
Wike, insinuated on Tuesday that the political crisis rocking Rivers State is
about control of his political base to ensure his political relevance in the
country.
Recall that some lawmakers loyal to Wike in the Rivers Assembly
had thrown the state into political crises as a result of the plot to impeach
the FCT Minister’s successor, Siminalayi Fubara on Monday.
It was believed that the lawmakers were acting on behalf of
Wike who helped to install Fubara as his successor.
However, while practically owning up to being the brains
behind the crises, Wike told a group of South-South leaders at his office in
Abuja on Tuesday that he must secure his base to maintain his political
relevance.
The former Governor who dismissed the claim that the move
against Fubara was motivated by ethnic considerations insisted that he would
not allow his political base to be taken away from him as a politician because
that would mean he had lost his relevance politically.
He added that he is not losing sleep over what he described
as a campaign of calumny against him over the matter.
“All of us want to be politically relevant; all of us want
to maintain our political structure,” the minister was quoted as saying during
the meeting by Channels Television.
“Is it not your political structure? Will you allow anybody
to just cut you out immediately? Everybody has a base. If you take my base, am
I not politically irrelevant?”
Wike added that internal wranglings are common in politics
and will be settled using the party’s mechanisms.
“In politics, there are a lot of internal wranglings. But to
come out and say ‘Oh they want to do this against me, it will not work.’
“I had every power then to say where this thing is going.
So, when things are wrong, you ask questions.
He however insisted that the issue is a party party affair
and would be resolved using the party’s mechanism.
“The party knows how they resolve their problems, it is not
an ethnic affair.
“Our party is coming to it, that is what I will say. Every
politician has his own interest,” the former governor added.
However, President Bola Tinubu and the PDP Governors’ Forum
have intervened in the crisis between the Minister and Fubara.
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