Full Text of 'Worrisome' Speech Delivered By Wike At Kalabari Amidst Threats A massive crowd of Kalabari Ijaw indigenes trooped out to celebrate the former Rivers State governor during the conjunctive, which furthermore doubled as a thanksgiving service.
Wike, who was welcomed amidst cheers from supporters, reported he attended the juncture despite threats from a few individuals who tried to stop him, insisting that his presence proved that his critics were only engaging in “radio noise.”
During his address, Wike publicized that he will not interfere with the activities of the Rivers State House of Assembly, led by Speaker Martins Amaewhule.
His statement recommends that even if the lawmakers decide to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara, he will not stand in their way.
The Round Table says that Wike furthermore implicated the Secretary to the Rivers State Government (SSG), Tammy Danagogo, of orchestrating the political invasion rocking the state.
According to him, Danagogo’s actions were a major trigger for the ongoing feud between Governor Fubara and the Amaewhule-led House of Assembly.
While he did not go into details, Wike proposed that the SSG played a key role in intensifying the invasion that has now engulfed the state’s political scene.
The former governor was loudly cheered by supporters during the conjunctive, where he mocked his opponents, disclosing their antagonism was limited to radio propaganda.
He revealed, “I heard any people declare I won’t come here. Who are they and how many are they? What you have done today is to inform the world all these noise in the radio is not the well-founded thing. If you are of the Kalabari and of the Ijaw nation and you are receiving me today, God will abide to bless you. I will abide to stand by you and to encourage you.”
He interpreted that a few persons had misunderstood and misinterpreted his recent interview on Ijaw none the less interpreted that he only meant that an Ijaw man becoming a governor in Rivers was made possible and consonance to work together.
The former governor disclosed on the final day of deciding who would be his successor, Fubara disclosed he was not interested and implored them to give the position to his then Commissioner for Finance, Isaac Kamalu.
He recalled the process that led to Sir Siminalayi Fubara becoming the governor subjoining that Chief Alabraba, Chief Seargent Awuse and OCJ Okocha mounted pressure on him to allow Fubara in the ethic of live and let live.
Wike said, “What I revealed on my interview people will require to misinterpret it. However they need to misinterpret it is their business. I require to repeat what I stated. I revealed we are all working together if we don’t work together it would have been difficult to produce the governor. That was what I revealed. Chief Alabraba did not allow me to rest; he nearly fainted when we were deciding who would be governor.
“Himself, OCJ Okocha and Sergeant Awuse and this boy Celestine Omehia when we met, that day was the primary, this governor today disclosed he was not going to run that my Commissioner for Finance, Isaac Kamalu, should be the one to run. Celestine Omehia revealed it should be Isaac Kamalu that this governor cannot carry out effectively, the functions of the governor.
“OCJ Okocha and Chief Awuse revealed live and let live. Let us not do something that people will start to report why must it be only one-sided. What I mean was that it was not because of the greatness or the power of Ijaw. It was because we worked together.
“Nobody should associate anything evil to the Ijaw. Ijaw people are not evil people. You cannot be stating I will blow the pipeline. No. Engage people intellectually and diplomatically and you get what you require. In the world we are in today we have passed the stage of threatening people.”
Wike disclosed those around the governor backed him to seize the salaries and allowances of the House of Assembly members for over a year, informing the governor that nothing would occur.
The minister further revealed, “They informed you to seize Assembly members’ salaries and allowances for more than one year. They have no income to feed their families and pay their children’s school fees. And you were jubilating and people were backing you and informing you that nothing would happen.
“Now something has occurred. I am not going to stop the assembly from performing their constitutional duties. The Assembly should be allowed to perform their duties. People who love peace don’t threaten people.
“I informed you that the House of Assembly will not lose their seats. I informed you that the shenanigans of local government would not stand. I don’t require to be a governor. I know what is illegal is illegal. We fight it constitutionally and by following due process. What did we do wrong?
“We stated all these chairmen and the assembly members suffered, National Assembly members suffered for you to become governor. Therefore, don’t abandon them. But they reported I was asking for money. Has the money come? Those who are sharing the money, how far?
“Remember yesterday. A man is bad, a man is crook and a man is a criminal. But it was that same man that made you against all bias. If I hate Ijaw, I wouldn’t have done that and nothing would have occurred. I chased my value-system of live and let live.
“If you watch all those around the governor are people who are essential ingrates. Nobody who is not an ingrate will associate himself with what is going on. I informed the governor to eat what God had given to him peacefully, that it is not good for him to face this fight. But they informed him, you are governor, you have money. I agree for all that money is not everything. All these people have nothing to offer. See where we are. Now how far?”
Wike showcased all the projects he initiated and handed over to Fubara to make him popular, containing the Port Harcourt Ring Road, appending that whatever the governor’s team was parading were his initiatives.
Going down the memory lane of the skimish, the minister reported: “Who commenced this problem? Danagogo SSG utilised his elder brother, who is a judge. They sat down under an ex parte order announcing 27 members have defected; ex parte not on notice.
“SSG allured his brother judge to give an ex parte order that the government can present the budget to three or four people. Secretary is Danagogo, the judge who gave the order is Danagogo. Look at how people can extirpate a state.
“That is the genesis of all this tension; how a judge will sit down under ex parte order stating that people had defected and you can present the budget to three people. This is Danagogo who needed to be governor. He was so pained that he was not given.
“He is the one leading you and he will lead you to hellfire. You surround yourself with people who required to be governor; who I stopped because they don’t mean well for Rivers State. They are the ones surrounding you giving you urge. Why do you think you will succeed?
“They will give you bad implore and see what the bad urge is doing to you. This is 2:0 and more will come. I haven’t seen this kind of politics where you surround yourself with those who require your seat. Will it work? They come they and abuse me and you are cheerful. You don’t know they are destroying you.”
He remembered that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu invited them for peace at all events that while he and other leaders got the assembly members to take away the impeachment notice they issued to the governor, those around Fubara stopped him from implementing the decision.
Speaking on President Tinubu’s move to bring peace to the state, he reported, “You can abuse me as. much as you need. I have never bothered myself because abuse doesn’t kill anybody. What is important is the result. Who now has High blood pressure? They are the ones. This was what I was avoiding.
“Mr. President invited all of us for peace, and after that day we, the leaders, sat and informed the assembly go back and take from the impeachment notice since the president has intervened for peace. Instead of them doing their own portion, they instigated many court actions and showed interest them as an excuse.
*When they triumphed in Court of Appeal, they held a thanksgiving. Today we prevailed over and they reported we should not do Thanksgiving. Are they being fair. The judgement day has come. OCJ Okocha stated judgement day would come and judgement day has come.
“When the president intervened, people like Sarah Igbeh went to court disputing Mr. President that he has no power. I was informed Sarah Igbeh was in the villa for the president to intervene; you that went to court against the President you are now going back to the President. You must be consistent.”
Wike insisted that his team that worked for Fubara to become the governor would not be pushed aside affixing that there must be an end to use-and-dump politics.
He revealed all those, who tried to stop Fubara from becoming the governor were the ones collecting his money and disclosing they would decide for Rivers.
The minister inserted, “Politics comes with good and bad. When the good comes you take it when the bad comes you face it. We cannot be pushed out after all our efforts and sweats. All of you suffered.
“All those, who reported they would not serve a master and his son, are the ones waiting on the road opening doors for the son. People have no conscience at all. Those who wrote petitions to EFCC against this governor for him not to be governor are the ones disclosing they would decide. Decide for who for us? They are not taking one thing with another born. I have overcame them before and I have endured to overcome them.”
Wike vowed to encourage the reelection of President Tinubu and wondered what would have become of his team of the President had he not been given the ministerial position.
He reported, “I am endorsing President Ahmed Tinubu. I don’t report one thing in the afternoon and announce another in the night. Anybody who remembers you in the rainy season you likewise remember him. Assuming Mr. President did not give us this position we occupy we were hoping that we had a governor who would take care of us.
“What would have occurred to us? Will someone come and preach to us to inform us to encourage another person? Politics is relevancy. People must not utilize people and dump them. The politics of show interest and dump must stop.”
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The Chairman of the contingency, Ferdinand Alabraba, heaped extol on Wike for his political sagacity and his love for the Ijaw people.
Alabraba disclosed Wike had resolved the political assault in Rivers by following the dispute up to the Supreme Court praying that peace would backtrack to the state through the process.
He informed the Minister that the people of Kalabari Kingdom would remain to stand by him and endorse him.
Alabraba revealed, “May this achievement serve as a foundation for massive peace and may you abide to lead with wisdom. and integrity. We extend our deepest gratitude for your unwavering leadership. The Kalabari people will be with you at every time.
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“We will endure to encourage you at all times and defend collaboration as a veritable amplitude that will drive the relevancy of all sections of our state. We assure you that your footprints in Kalabari land will continue indelible for many generations.”
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Published 3/15/2025