Federal Capital Territory (FCT) minister, Nyesom Wike, has asserted that Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, breached the impeachment agreement following his decision to seek a second term in office.
Naijaonpoint reports that Wike made this known on Monday, during the inspection of a string of near-completed road and infrastructure projects across the FCT, including the Renewed Hope City in Kassara, the Old Kedfi Road in Dei Dei, the Airport Road to Kuje corridor handled by Arab Contractors, the Kuje to Gwagwalada first phase by Gilmour, and the City Gate project being executed by Julius Berger.
Speaking on Fubara’s withdrawal from the 2027 All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship race and throwing his full weight behind the emergence of House of Representatives member, Kingsley Chinda, as the party’s candidate, Wike said the Governor should not have purchased the nomination forms.
According to Wike, Fubara‘s move was a breach of political trust and an affront to President Bola Tinubu’s repeated peace interventions.
He said, “In the first place, he ought not to have collected the form because the agreement was reached that the impeachment should be dropped, while he should also not talk about a second tenure.
“With collecting form first, he didn’t show sign of gentlemanship. He didn’t show that sign, and that was not expected. We thought that Mr. President have been intervening severally and pleading with the legislature not to continue with impeachment.”
Commending Chinda’s emergence and his political pedigree, Wike states, “A good product markets itself. Everybody knows that Kingsley Chinda is the material. He’s quite experienced. He has worked with the executive and now in the legislature you can hear his voice when he was a minority leader of the PDP. I’m sure that he must have been approached by the ruling All Progressives Congress to join them and then get the ticket.”
He said all the projects were ready for inauguration and praised the contractors for the quality of work delivered, singling out the City Gate project as a brainchild of First Lady Senator Oluremi Tinubu.
Wike added that Julius Berger had promised to hand over the project by the end of May or the first week of June and was on course to keep that promise.
He stated, “When you have a good woman who means well for the administration of the husband. I’m talking about the First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu this is her brainchild.”
