Mass resignation of Commissioners evidence Wike hijacked Rivers govt — G60 Lawmakers

Opposition Federal Lawmakers known as the G-60 have said that the mass resignation pro-Wike Commissioners fro Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s cabinet is evidence that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, initially hijacked the state government and its resources to himself alone without giving the incumbent governor any space to breath.

On Wednesday May 15, 2024, Rivers State Commissioner for Education, Professor Chinedu Mmon, and Commissioner for Housing, Gift Worlu, resigned from Governor Fubara’s cabinet, citing toxicity for their actions.

Both Mmon and Worlu are loyalists to Wike, who left office as Governor of Rivers State on May 29, 2023 and had since been replaced by Fubara but has made effort in making the state ungovernable for his successor, despite having spent his own eight years tenures.

Before the duo of Mmom and Worlu resignation, the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Professor Zacchaeus Adangor, and Commissioner for Finance, Isaac Kamalu, had resigned from the cabinet a few weeks ago.

Reacting to the development, the G60 lawmakers, in a statement by their spokesperson Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, claimed that Wike’s fight was about desperation to maintain and hold on to public purse and organs of the State government and not about good governance.

The lawmakers said his minions were delusional and lying about resigning from their current workspace which they claimed had become toxic.

They lambasted the FCT minister, describing his betrayal and battle with his party as allegedly driven 100 per cent by selfish interest.

They stated that Wike wanted to treat Rivers State as a personal fieldom with delusions of grandeur and a ferocious sense of entitlement, but Fubara proved to him that he’s all about improving people’s lives, which is the real purpose of governance.

The opposition lawmakers noted that since Wike lost the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2022, and subsequently lost out in the selection of running mate for the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar, he has been vindictive and hellbent on seeing the party messed up.

They said Wike would want to mess up the party including associating with all questionable political characters just to survive against all the pretentious democratic grandstanding of his years of being in power.

While assuring that his plan will fail, the lawmakers urged Fubara to continue his good leadership in the state and ignore people who lack the moral capacity to even work with him.

They said if not because of alleged Wike’s imposition of the the appointees, some of them were not qualified to be village union chairmen.