Group cautions Odili over alleged inflammatory remarks against Wike

An interest group, Rivers Restoration Movement (RRM), has cautioned a former Governor of Rivers, Dr. Peter Odili, against making comments capable of exacerbating the political crises in the state.
 
The group’s Director-General, Johnson Georgewill, stated this in a statement issued yesterday in Port Harcourt.
 
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Odili had, during a Christmas ballad organised to honour Governor Siminalayi Fubara, lauded the governor for thwarting ‘one man’s quest to capture River State as his private estate.’
 
Georgewill, however, alleged that Odili’s remarks were directed at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike.
 
He also claimed that Odili defamed Wike by insinuating that the political crises in the state arose from Fubara’s resistance to the FCT minister’s alleged attempt to control the state’s treasury.
 
“It is unfortunate, disappointing and absurd for a statesman like Odili to make such statements against Wike who has done much for Rivers State.”