Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has slammed the former governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili, describing him as a ‘General Overseer’ who has turned the state into his private estate.
TheNewsGuru.com(TNG) reports that Wike, while speaking at the Special Thanksgiving Service organized by Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Martin Chike Amaewhule, at the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Oro-Igwe/Eliogbolo Archdeaconry Church of the Holy Spirit, Eliozu Parish, Port Harcourt on Sunday, reacted to Odili’s accusations of capturing the state as a ‘private estate’.
The former Rivers governor had said that Fubara summoned unusual fortitude to confront Wike’s quest of capturing the state through ferocious but unnecessary political war.
Responding, Wike, through his media aide, Lere Olayinka, issued a statement saying Odili’s wife and children hold high-level positions in the state.
He said, “Between him and myself, who has turned Rivers State to his personal estate? His wife is a Chairman of Governing Council, his daughter is a commissioner, his other daughter is a judge and he is the general overseer.
“Who has now turned Rivers State to his private estate? I am sure if care is not taken, if there is a chance, he can even arrange a marriage for the governor.
“It was his nephew, his late senior brother’s son, that was recommended for commissioner. He took the slot and gave it to his own daughter.
“Someone who didn’t remember to stand for the son of his late elder brother, is that an elder statesman?”