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Under the aegis of the Rivers Professional Women League, or RPWL, Rivers women denied on Saturday that their decision to leave President Bola Tinubu’s wife was extremely upsetting and humiliating, as suggested by Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, or FCT.

According to reports, the ladies reportedly staged a walkout on Friday at the president’s wife’s women’s initiative empowerment program and refused to addressed by the wife of the sole administrator, Theresa Ibas on behalf of the president’s wife at the programme in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital.

The women criticized Wike for fabricating what happened of Friday, emphasizing that they were told that they would be addressed by Fatima Abass, the wife of the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

The FCT Minister said that merely visiting people to make peace pleas was insufficient, adding that those who truly desire peace work and take action. This statement was made by his media aide, Lere Olayinka.

“These are the same people pleading for peace, but at the same time doing things that are contrary to what they are pleading for.

“How can you say you want peace and, at the same time, you are sponsoring people to insult everyone, including the President and his wife? All those shenanigans won’t bring peace, and I am sure they know that, because they are not sincere with their up and down pleadings for peace.

“As for me and those who subscribe to my leadership, we condemn in totality that yesterday’s show of shame and we apologize to our First Lady for the embarrassing conduct of those few women who do not represent the characters and ideals of the people of Rivers State,” Wike said.

In a joint statement signed by Nimi Fiberisima, Esq. President, Jennifer Boms Wolugbom, Secretary, and Tambari Menete, Director of Publicity, the ladies responded that the minister was only making a concerted effort to manipulate the story in order to forward his agenda.

They emphasized that Wike has spent more time in Rivers State than his primary location in Abuja, where he is superintending as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, and that it would be unfair and counterproductive to continue on this path of blackmail. They said that using the peaceful disposition of Rivers people to hunt them has become the norm in recent years.

“We are miffed by this constant unnecessary hitting up Rivers’ polity. It is trite to inform the public that Gov. Siminalayi Fubara is not by any means involved or directed any of the Rivers Women to act on his behalf as to what transpired in Port Harcourt on Friday, May 2, 2025.

“The women are just organic supporters who do not want to be taken for a ride. Much as Governor Siminalayi Fubara is toeing the path of peace and embarking on reconciliation process, it does not translate to enslavement and/or insulting the sensibilities of Rivers people as being manipulated.

“It is apparent that Rivers women did not and cannot walk out on the First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu or disrespect her husband, President Bola Tinubu. Such a narrative is the imaginative spinning of Chief Nyesom Wike to blackmail Rivers people, as always.

“What people failed to understand is that political position is transient and in no time this phase of history will pass and all the actors will also fizzle out, some on the good side and some others on the bad side,” the women said.

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