An curiosity group, Rivers Restoration Motion, RRM, has cautioned a former Governor of Rivers, Dr Peter Odili, towards making feedback able to exacerbating the political crises within the state.
The group’s Director-Basic, Johnson Georgewill, acknowledged this in an announcement issued on Monday in Port Harcourt.
The Information Company of Nigeria experiences that Mr Odili had, throughout a Christmas ballad organised to honour Governor Siminalayi Fubara, lauded the governor for thwarting ‘one man’s quest to seize River State as his personal property.’
Mr Georgewill, nonetheless, alleged that Odili’s remarks have been directed on the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister, Nyesom Wike.
He additionally claimed that Odili defamed Wike by insinuating that the political crises within the state arose from Fubara’s resistance to the FCT minister’s alleged try to manage the state’s treasury.
“It’s unlucky, disappointing and absurd for a statesman like Odili to make such statements towards Wike who has completed a lot for Rivers State.
“Odili ought to uphold the dignity of an elder statesman moderately than have interaction in partisanship,” Mr Georgewill stated.
He questioned Odili’s motives for making what he described as false allegations towards Wike, extra so when he had hitherto praised the FCT minister’s achievements as governor of the state.
“In the course of the inauguration of Odili’s mansion constructed by Wike’s administration in addition to a Most cancers Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Therapy Centre named after him, amongst different initiatives, Odili lavished praises on Wike.
“He publicly declared that Wike’s administration out-performed all its predecessors, together with his personal tenure from 1999 to 2007,” he stated.
The director-general expressed dismay at Odili’s obvious turn-around, accusing him of failing to assist Fubara’s candidacy through the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP) primaries and the governorship election.
Regardless of this, Mr Georgewill stated that Wike had steadfastly supported Fubara by making certain his emergence because the get together’s candidate and his subsequent victory.
He additional acknowledged that through the PDP primaries and governorship election, Wike had confronted opposition from the ‘so-called leaders who at the moment take entrance seats at authorities capabilities in Rivers’.
“The FCT minister backed Fubara to uphold fairness, equity and justice for all of the individuals of riverine communities from which Fubara hails.
“RRM and its affiliate teams throughout the 23 native authorities areas of Rivers warn that any additional hostile media statements from Odili towards Wike might be strongly resisted,” he stated.
Mr Georgewill, nonetheless, urged Wike to stay targeted on his developmental initiatives aimed toward reworking the FCT right into a world-class metropolis.
He additionally suggested the minister to ignore criticisms from these he described as politicians who have been merely pursuing their egocentric pursuits.NAN
