The Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, has accused Governor Siminalayi Fubara for being ungrateful for supporting him to be governor.
Wike stated this when he appeared as a guest on Channels TV on Friday whetre he als expressed regret for supporting Fubara.
“I will never support Fubara in my political life again. It’s not about me. People laboured to put up a structure,” Mr Wike said.
Wike, a former governor of the oil-rich Rivers State, , said Fubara would not have taken the 50th position in the race if not for his (Wike’s) sacrifice.
“I sacrificed to talk to the Ogonis, I sacrificed to talk to several other people that let us go this way.
“You turned it into that I am asking for N50 billion, N100 billion. You turned up lies against me. I brought you up, put you here. Today, I turned out to be over-demanding,” the minister said.
Wike said Mr Fubara was destroying the political structure that brought him to power.
“In every political family, you run elections under people and people believe that we are all together. We must keep our political structure.
“Your rose through somewhere. Why do you deny it? It’s unfair, and you want me to sit down,” the minister said.
“We are all humans, ingratitude is bad, it doesn’t matter what anybody can label it,” the minister responded when asked about his demands to Mr Fubara. He added that he only told the governor not to abandon the people who “toiled hard” for him to get to that position.
Both leaders have been at loggerheads over the control of political structure in Rivers.
The political feud between the two former allies has split the State House of Assembly into two factions, with 27 members loyal to Mr Wike while three others are loyal to Governor Fubara.
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