Jonathan Nwokpor
Governor Sim Fubara’s mentor is the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, according to Tony Okocha, the chairman of the Rivers State Caretaker Committee for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Okocha emphasised that Fubara would not have been a governor without the minister’s support, calling the latter Wike’s political investment.
During his appearance on Politics Today on Channels Television, Okocha also provided an explanation for the discord between Wike and Fubara.
Okocha said the reason for the fight with Fubara was to maintain Wike’s political system in Rivers.
He said: “Governor Fubara is Wike’s political investment.
“From civil servant to the candidate of a party and delivering him in 23 local governments out of 23, the first in our history, all of these were Wike’s ability to manoeuvre.
“The former governor has said, ‘I am not asking you for anything. I am only saying that you are destroying the structure that produced you.’
“If you are a politician, no politician will allow his structure to be dismantled. When you do that, it means that you have no home to fall back to. That is the issue.”
Wike and Fubara have been at odds over who should govern Rivers’ political space.
The ruling from a Rivers High Court prohibiting Martin Amaewhule and twenty-four other people from presenting themselves as State Assembly legislators was overturned on Thursday by the Court of Appeal in Abuja.
The trial court lacked jurisdiction to consider the claim, according to a three-member appellate court panel chaired by Jimi Olukayode-Bada. The decision concluded that proceedings of this nature can only be considered and decided by a federal high court.
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