By Daniel Abia, DaviesIheamnachor, Henry Umoru & Dickson Omobola

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, yesterday, said he would not stop the Martins Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly from performing its constitutional obligations.

The former Rivers State governor, who accused Secretary to the Rivers State Government, SSG, Dr Tammy Danagogo, of inciting the ongoing political crisis in the state, told Governor Siminalayi Fubara that he was two wins ahead of him and said more wins would come his way.

This was just as the youth wing of the apex socio-political organisation in the South-South geo-political zone, Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, gave a 48-hour ultimatum to Wike to retract his disparaging remarks about the Ijaw nation.

However, the Minister clarified his statements about the Ijaw, arguing that he was quoted out of context.
Wike spoke at a Thanksgiving and Civic Reception organised by a political movement named after his initials, NEW Associates, in Abalama Town, Kalabari Kingdom, Rivers State.

Before the event, Kalabari women protested and barricaded the road leading into kingdom, just as they insisted that the Minister would not be permitted in over a comment that they were a minority in the state.
Sunday Vanguard gathered that while the women, adorned in black attires and white lace strapped round their heads, stormed the area as early as 7 am, the King of Abalama Kingdom, His Royal Highness, King Big Tom-Tom, also urged the Associates to cancel the ceremony.

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Meanwhile, Wike mocked those who said he would be unable to make it to the event and thanked the community for receiving him.

His words: “I heard some people argued that I won’t be here today. Who are they and how many are they? What you have done today is to tell the world that all this noise over the radio is not the real thing. If you are of the Kalabari and Ijaw nations and you are receiving me today, God will continue to bless you. I will continue to support you. “What I said during my interview is being misinterpreted, but that is their business. I want to repeat what I said, which is that we are all working together. If we didn’t work together, it would have been difficult to produce the governor. That was what I said. At the time we were deciding who would be the governor; Chief Alabraba did not allow me to rest. He nearly fainted.

“When we met that day (prior to choosing a candidate), he, OCJ Okocha and Sergeant Awuse and this boy, Celestine Omehia, were the primary reason this governor said he was not going to run (vie for the governorship) that my Commissioner for Finance, Isaac Kamalu should. Celestine Omehia said it should be Isaac Kamalu because this governor cannot effectively carry out the functions of a governor.



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