The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has declared that the former Governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, cannot kill him.
Wike made this remark while accusing Odili of disobeying
President Bola Tinubu regarding the Rivers peace deal, following the ongoing
rift with Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State.
Speaking during a New Year luncheon he organized at his
country home in Obio-Akpor on Friday, Wike dismissed calls by some Rivers State
elders for him to apologize to Odili over his recent comments.
According to Wike, he had done nothing wrong and vowed to
resist being bullied by anyone.
He said: “They said I should apologize; for what? That there
is no law that says their daughter should not, but I said as an elder
statesman, should you have given what belongs to your nephew to your daughter?
“Did I say that there is a law that says your daughter
should not be something? But you said somebody is converting Rivers State to
his personal estate. It’s not correct. The man who is converting Rivers State
to a personal estate is you, and to crown it up, you are now the general
overseer.
“I didn’t say anything wrong, so you cannot kill me for what
I didn’t say. Tinubu is not like you. If you are a good person, Tinubu called
Rivers people. As an elder statesman, he wanted you to make peace, but you came
home. Ordinarily, what you should have done was to call Mr. President back and
tell him how you have tried to implement some of them. Is there any way we can
do the rest? Rather, you disobeyed.
“They said elders said I should apologize. Apologize for
what?
“I said that I heard and I read that somebody who should be
our elder statesman said this thing today and said a different thing tomorrow,
and I said no. No elder statesman should say that. And the elder statesman
didn’t say, ‘I didn’t say so.’ If he had said he didn’t say that, I would have
apologized. But he didn’t deny the statement.
“I didn’t abuse anybody. I said our elder statesman was the
one telling people the kind of mansion and castle I built for him. I didn’t say
I said so. It is not me who said it. It is the man who is supposed to be an
elder statesman that said so. You are the one going about telling people what I
did.”
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