A group of Opposition federal lawmakers known as the G-60 says that the mass resignation of Commissioners who are loyalists of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, is an evidence that Wike initially hijacked the Siminalayi Fubara administration in Rivers State, and its resources alone without giving the incumbent governor any space to breath.
Reacting to the development in a statement, the G60 lawmakers’ spokesperson, Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, alleged that Wike’s fight was about desperation to maintain and hold on to public purse and organs of the State government and not about good governance.
The group pointed out that the comissioners’ resignation from their current workspace which they claimed had become toxic was very misleading and false and lambasted the FCT minister for his alleged acts of betrayal and battle with his party.
The G-60 claimed that Wike wanted to treat Rivers State as a personal fieldom with delusions of grandeur and a ferocious sense of entitlement and expressed happiness that Fubara proved to him that he’s all about improving people’s lives, which is the real purpose of governance.
The opposition lawmakers further alleged that since Wike lost the presidential primary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in 2022, and subsequently lost out in the selection of running mate for the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar, he has been vindictive and hellbent on seeing the party messed up.
While assuring that his plan will fail, the lawmakers urged Fubara to continue his good leadership in the state and ignore people who lack the moral capacity to even work with him, saying if not because of The alleged imposition of the the appointees, some of them were not qualified.
The Rivers State Commissioners for Education and Housing, Professor Chinedu Mmon and Gift Worlu, on Wednesday, resigned from Governor Fubara’s cabinet, citing toxicity for their actions. Before the duo of Mmom and Worlu were the former Attorney-General and
