The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has disclosed that the suspended Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, is making reconciliatory efforts to achieve peace but lacks the capacity to end the crisis that resulted in President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of the six months state of emergency.
Wike said that the suspended governor’s conducts and actions has proven that he is not ready to take actions that might be considered beneath his status for peace which he seek for to come into reality in the state.
The minister noted that while the governor met with him for reconciliation alongside two state governors from the All Progressives Congress (APC), he has refused to meet other aggrieved leaders weeks after the meeting even when he was informed on the need to embark on the idea.
He noted that Fubara believed that he is the brain behind his ordeal, saying though I am a leader but I am not the only one that is aggrieved. There are other people who worked day and night for him but hurt them many times through his conducts and decisions.
The former governor, who disclosed this on Monday during an interview with newsmen in Abuja, stressed that while his successor came to him for peace, the suspended governor’s supporters were yet to sheathe their swords on the battle ground to seek peace like their leader.
“The President has called for peace severally and I cannot sit down when the President has called for peace and I say, ‘I don’t want peace’,” Wike said during a media parley with select journalists in Abuja.
“Yes, he came with two governors and one elder person. Unfortunately, the two governors are APC governors. So, I will not pursue him. He said he wants peace. That’s fine. I also want peace.”
“I told him, ‘Look, I don’t think you have the capacity to really make this peace.’ That’s why when I read what I read yesterday, I felt so bad. Why? If you are making peace, your people are demonstrating every day; if you are making peace, your people are busy on television insulting people. How do you feel in that case?”
“You must take steps. Have you met the assembly people? There are leaders you should meet. It is not to say, ‘I want peace.’ You must show it by conduct and action,” the former governor said.
Wike, who claimed that some governors and former leaders in the state deceived Fubara to fight him, said: “Governors came pushing him, where are they now? I think the governors are enjoying their own. Fubara is a young man, I warned him saying, look, go this way, go this way and you will not have problems but he refused.”
