Former Governor of Rivers State Nyesom Wike, has again expressed regret for helping Siminalayi Fubara to become the governor.
Addressing a crowd of supporters, in Port Harcourt over the weekend, Wike said the governor displayed a high level of pretence and deceived him [Wike] to work towards him becoming the governor.
Wike has been at daggers-drawn with his successor, Governor Fubara for many months now and their faceoff appears a long way from resolution.
Wike said: “You (Fubara) said State Assembly people should not be independent, but you want to be independent. Continue to be independent. Continue to save the democracy of Nigeria. If they like, let them do as they’re doing; if they get to any court they have in the state, let them continue. Let them continue.
“We’ll never be intimidated by that. So let nobody be afraid. Every day, they say they’re doing thanksgiving. They were lucky they didn’t show this early. When we’ve finished winning for them, from polling units to tribunal, from tribunal to court of appeal, they now came saying we want to remove them at Supreme Court.
The two men and their supporters have been at logger heads over the control of the party at the state level resulting in destruction of parts of the Assembly complex and other clashes that have rocked the state .
This prompted the president to wade into the matter to broker peace between the two earring groups but two months into the peace deal all is still not well
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