Wike blasts Fubara as ingrate, vows to use law against him

The feud between the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and his successor, Siminalayi Fubara, has escalated as Wike called Fubara an ingrate.

Wike broke his silence on the rift with Fubara on Friday, while speaking to selected journalists in Abuja.

The duo have been at loggerheads for weeks, leading to a split in the state House of Assembly and a bomb attack on the assembly complex.

Wike accused Fubara of destroying the political structure that brought him to power within three months and mistreating him.

He said, “I don’t like ingrates; I can’t stand it. What is happening now is what Odili said in his book: ‘Give a man power and money, then you will know the person.’ If you haven’t given a man power and money, then you don’t know the person.”

He added, “We are just starting; God gave you something; you are now importing crisis. God gave you this on the platter of gold. Ask him, he didn’t buy form. The Federal Government is not fighting you, no crisis. But you are the one now trying to create a crisis for yourself.”

Wike said he would use the law to fight Fubara, not thugs, and that he was not moved by ethnic blackmail.

He said, “No amount of ethnic blackmail will change us. We will come, you will see politics in the state, now they are saying ASAWANA. No problem, we will come. Any politician or elder I see around him I see you as an ingrate. When the law speaks, militants, ethnicity will run away.”

He also revealed that 27 out of 32 members of the state assembly were against Fubara and that he decided to keep silent because of his respect for President Tinubu.