Fubara to Wike: Don’t Abandon Me For Sharks, Tigers *Aide Interprets Gov’s Statement at Thanksgiving Service
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In an effort to play down on the statement of the Rivers State governor, Sim Fubara, who insinuated on Sunday that Nyesom Wike may be on his way out of the PDP, spokesperson of the governor, Boniface Onyedi has said that his boss did not mean that Wike was about to join the APC.
On Sunday, during a thanksgiving to mark Wike’s eight years service to Rivers people, Fubara had told Wike that “while we are seeing signs that it’s like you want to go over to the other side with everybody wishing that, please don’t be too far from me because I know that the sharks, the tigers are really around looking for what to hurt.
“So, being around would continue to guide and put my head straight for the purpose of this state.”
It was not clear if the sharks and tigers that Fubara talked about were within the PDP or he was referring to people of the state, or people outside Rivers.
When TNN engaged Onyedi on the governor’s public statement, he said his boss never said Wike was getting ready to join the APC. According to him, the governor might have meant a plan by the former governor to travel abroad.
When he was referred to the direct statement of the governor, and the indirect reference to Wike’s plan to join the APC, he retorted: “Not true. He (Fubara) said when he (Wike) moved towards the other side of retirement, not moving to any political party. So how does this suggest it is going to APC? What of relocating abroad, because at a time, Barr Nyesom Wike was also planning a vacation?”
However, Wike’s body language in recent times shows that one of his legs is already inside the APC, the party he once described as cancerous. At the thanksgiving, there were more APC chieftains than PDP members in attendance.
