The Rivers State Commissioners for Education and Housing, Professor Chinedu Mmon and Gift Worlu, today resigned from Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s cabinet, citing toxicity for their actions.
Both Mmon and Worlu are loyalists to Wike and have become the third and fourth reappointed commissioners to tender their resignation.
Before the duo of Mmom and Worlu were the former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Professor Zacchaeus Adangor, and former Commissioner for Finance, Isaac Kamalu, who recently resigned from their appointments.
The G60 lawmakers in a statement by its spokesperson, Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, stated that Wike’s fight is about desperation to maintain and hold on to power and the organs of government in Rivers and not about good governance.
The lawmakers said his loyalists who resigned are lying about resigning from their current workspace.
They took a swipe at the minister, describing his betrayal and battle with his party, the PDP, as driven by selfish interest.
They claimed that Wike wanted to treat Rivers State as a personal fiefdom, but Fubara proved to him that he’s all about improving people’s lives, which is the real purpose of governance.
The opposition lawmakers said that since Wike lost the presidential primaries of the People’s Democratic Party, and subsequently lost out in the selection of running mate for the winner, Atiku Abubakar, he has been vindictive and hellbent on seeing the party messed up.
While assuring that Wike’s supposed plan will fail, the G-60 lawmakers urged Fubara to continue his good leadership in the state and ignore people who lack the moral capacity to even work with him saying if not because of Wike’s imposition of these people “some of them are not qualified to be village union chairmen.”
