Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has revealed that he is often moved to tears in private when he watches videos of Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s public statements against him.
Wike, who made the emotional disclosure during a live media parley in Abuja on Monday, clarified that he has no personal crisis with Fubara despite widespread speculation.
“I don’t know anything about crisis between me and Fubara. I don’t have any crisis with him,” Wike said, while responding to a question on whether it was time to lift the state of emergency declared in Rivers State.
The former Rivers governor distanced himself from any role in the emergency declaration, saying: “I’m not the president who would lift the state of emergency. If Mr. President had called me that time, I wouldn’t have accepted the state of emergency. So he knows. He knows what to lift.”
Wike maintained that the state of emergency was intended to protect Governor Fubara from imminent impeachment, not to target the people of the state.
“So the issue of the government is right or not does not arise. What I said was that his potential emergency was to save the Governor, because the Governor was almost impeached. That was not our own hope. We wanted to act for the people, we had said so several times. But the president is his wisdom. And that’s why I said the government said it. That his people should not be talking too much, that the President says the same thing.”
On Fubara’s verbal attacks, Wike expressed deep emotional pain over what he described as betrayal.
“I did not say it. He said it. Now the point I’m making, what is the crisis? I have told you several times. I don’t want crisis. But rather, the governor unknown to me, brought himself as a tool to those who couldn’t fight me to fight me. when people talk about resolution, sometimes, when I go back, in my quiet moments, I play the video of the speeches of the governor. What he said, what he did to me, I weep, was it necessary?”
