Why Niger Delta stakeholders may not reconcile Fubara, Wike – APC chairman

The caretaker chairman of the Rivers state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sir Tony Okocha has offered an insight as to why efforts by some stakeholders in Niger Delta to reconcile Governor Similaye Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike would not yield any result.

Okocha at a press conference held at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja on Friday explained that the issue between supporters of the two leading gladiators in the state has gone beyond reconciliation.

He frowned at those whipping up sentiments and blackmail against President Tinubu and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and the judiciary over the recent judgement stopping statutory allocation to the state.

He insisted that Governor Fubara should be held responsible for the crisis rocking the state because he refused to adhere to the rule of law and the peace agreement brokered by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“I say it’s foolishness for anyone to cry when the head is off. There is also this aphorism, that you don’t cry over spilled milk. Where have these elders been? Where? The matter is narrowing down, if you ask me; because the only other hurdle to escape is the Supreme Court,” Okocha said.

“What are the elders coming to do at this late hour, if they actually would want to come? What are they coming to do? They are the same people who told the governor, that you are a know-all and do-all, they encouraged the governor to believe that his head was bigger than his pillow.

“They were the ones, they told him, look, your powers are elastic, what can you not do? And the governor agreed to that and today, the Ikweri man tells you that not everybody that comes to plan your building will be part of the building.

“No. A lot of them have disappeared into thin air at the time they came to counsel the governor against the decision that he signed to, they had lined their pockets.

“And the governor is on the hot seat. So to say to you that I don’t see that working is way, way too late. But I wish. We want peace, Simple thing. See, the only way to bring peace is to follow the law.”