The kinsmen of Minister Nyesom Wike from the Ikwerre ethnic group in Rivers State have pledged their full support to Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
News About Nigeria reports that the President General of Ogbakor Ikwerre Worldwide, Eze Barrister Godspower Onuekwa, led a delegation to pay a courtesy visit to the Governor on Monday.
During the visit, Onuekwa stated that as Ikwerre people, they have had their opportunity to govern the state and will not stand idly by while an unknown person disrupts the peace and stability achieved under Governor Fubara’s leadership.
The Ikwerre kinsmen reiterated their commitment to supporting the governor, ensuring the continued development and progress of Rivers State.
While commending the governor for the numerous development projects being executed across the various local government areas, including those of Ikwerre, Eze Onuekwa, pledged the unalloyed support of the good people of Ikwerre ethnic nationality to the administration.
On his part, the Chairman of the Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Chike Worlu Wodo, said the stakeholders of Ikwerre ethnic nationality visited to encourage Governor Fubara, who has shown sufficient capacity in governing the state, to be seen and heard by everybody.
Eze Wodo urged Governor Fubara not to be distracted but to remain focused, steer the affairs of the State fearlessly, and be sure of the Ikwerre support.
Also speaking, Senator John Azuta Mbata said Ikwerre people had governed the State for 16 years with support given to them by other ethnic groups in the spirit of inclusive politics, explaining that they cannot, therefore, refuse to support others to peacefully steer the affairs of the State.
Azuta assured that all relevant leaders of Ikwerre ethnic nationality were present to pledge their support to Governor Fubara against his detractors and ensure that the administration succeeds.
Responding, Fubara declared that he is not an ungrateful person because he acknowledges and appreciates those who are instrumental in the good gestures that have come his way.
The governor stated that it is due to his well-bred lifestyle and personality that he has never contemplated throwing caution to the wind in handling the current political crisis that is bedevilling the state.
The leadership structure of Ikwerre stakeholders led other paramount rulers, political leaders, leaders of thought, women, and youths on the visit to recommit the people of the ethnic nationality to the success of the administration.
Governor Fubara stated that if he were ungrateful, with bad character as canvassed in some quarters, it would have been difficult to hide it for too long from everybody.
“I want to also say this: Fubara is not an ungrateful person. If I were a bad person, you (one) can’t hide character that is bad more than one week, two weeks, one month, one year, two years, eight years, even more than eight years. For 16 years, if I was a bad person, everybody would have known.
“But, even your own child that is in your house that you have given birth to, let us start with even the girl child. It gets to a stage, your girl child will enter the bathroom and lock the door from behind.
“Even if they forcefully put a feeding bottle in my mouth, if I get filled up, won’t I pull it out? So, when people stand outside and say what they say, I want you people to ask them to tell you, in their own good conscience, what is that bad thing—that wickedness, that ungratefulness—that this man (Fubara) has ever shown or done. But I leave that one to God, who will judge everybody.”
Governor Fubara, however, said the visit was not a time to address those issues surrounding the political crisis but a day to appreciate the delegation and the Almighty God for what He has been doing.
