Nyesom Wike, Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has come out to admit that his battle for political relevance at his base is behind the conflict he’s having with Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers state.
Wike did not mince words by stating that if he loses his base as a politician, he will automatically lose his political relevance.
He disclosed this in his office on Tuesday in Abuja while receiving South-South leaders before whom he insisted that the right thing must be done.
Wike succinctly declared: “All of us want to be politically relevant; all of us want to maintain our political structure.
“Is it not your political structure? Will you allow anybody to just cut you out immediately? Everybody has a base. If you take my base, am I not politically irrelevant?”
Until President Bola Tinubu’s intervention on Tuesday when he met with the warring duo, Rivers state was almost becoming a theatre of war.
Theliberationnews can authoritatively report that the relationship between Wike and Governor Fubara is far from being cordial, henceforth.
Obviously, the lawmakers that attempted Fubara’s removal are known loyalists of Wike. They have since been supplanted by lawmakers with sympathy for incumbent Governor Fubara. Therein lies the Wike dilemma.
He needs a friendly Fubara to sustain his hold on Rivers politics where he has so many enemies and adding the governor to them might be a bad political move for him.
Theliberationnews believes that whether Wike still has a political base or not, the unfurling events in months ahead shall reveal. But one thing is clear and that is that with the last failed and infamous move to impeach the governor by the former governor’s loyalists, Wike has shot himself in the foot.
It might not be wrong to state that this might mark the beginning of the end of Wike’s absolute reign in Rivers politics. Governor Fubara looks to be gaining more confidence on the use of executive powers that Wike effectively deployed during his reign as governor of that state.
