Senior Special
Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, the
Federal Capital Territory FCT minister, Lere Olayinka has described as
disappointing, comments made against his principal by a former Governor of
Rivers state, Dr Peter Odili.
Decrying the loss of
statesmanship by Dr Odili, Olayinka said the former governor has reduced
himself to a ridiculous level of partisanship.
In the coming days, Odili
would get a deserved response from Wike.
“(I) Read the comments
made by the former Governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili on the FCT Minister,
Nyesom Wike, today, and I can’t but be disappointed that someone who should be
acting like an elder statesman can reduce himself to such ridiculous level of
partisanship.
“Well, he will get his
deserved response from the FCT Minister in due course”, Olayinka said on
Saturday night.
Dr Odili was quoted to
have said that the Rivers governor, Siminalayi Fubara stopped Wike from turning
the state to a private estate.
Odili who spoke at a
Christmas ballad organized by him in honour of Governor Fubara and his family,
said the governor summoned an unusual fortitude to confront the quest by Wike
to capture Rivers state through ferocious, but unnecessary political war.
“Governor Fubara
confronted the challenge, prevented the quest by one man to capture the State
as a private estate, emancipated Rivers people, steadied governance and made
civil servants and Rivers people happier as it used to be” he said.
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