PORT HARCOURT – The quarrel between the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike and the previous Governor of Rivers State Sir Dr Peter Odili has continued to spark outrage amongst their loyalists.
The newest of such flared tempers is coming from the Rivers Elders Council who issued a strongly-worded rebuke to a different set of elders within the state, recognized as Rivers involved elders.
The Elders Council irked by the current remarks made by Chief Nyesom Wike about Dr. Peter Odili, described the feedback of the Rivers involved elders as “puerile” and missing in braveness
The Elders council, in an announcement signed by 45 outstanding elders, together with Ferdinand Alabraba, Emmanuel Anyanwu, and Senator Magnus Abe, questioned the motives of the involved elders, alleging that they have been people who had labored intently with Wike however have been now parading themselves as supporters of Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
The group famous that regardless of Dr. Odili’s lively function within the present Rivers State disaster, Wike had by no means made any opposed remarks in opposition to him, because of the deep respect reserved for Odili.
The council nevertheless condemned Dr. Odili’s disparaging assertion about Wike, made at a Christmas carol service, saying it’s unacceptable.
The assertion reads: “We contemplate it unlucky that the feedback got here from elders who lacked the braveness to let the general public know what prompted the remarks by Nyesom Wike.
“Did Dr. Odili deserve respect in return for being intentionally disrespectful to the Minister of the FCT? The reply isn’t any.
“Dr. Odili, an elder and former governor of Rivers State, shouldn’t have thrown decorum to the wind in making statements in his quest to please the governor, who was his Particular Visitor of Honour on the occasion, it doesn’t matter what the inducement could have been.”
They, nevertheless, suggested the involved elders to summon the braveness to advise Dr. Odili to be extra circumspect in his utterances sooner or later.
“We advise Dr. Peter Odili and his cohorts to kindly depart Chief Nyesom Wike alone, whereas they proceed with their exploitative manipulations of the governor of Rivers State, their new benefactor,” the assertion concluded.
