Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has cautioned governors elected under the umbrella of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to desist from interfering in the affairs of Rivers State.
News About Nigeria reports that the minister spoke at the PDP Secretariat in Port Harcourt during the party’s state congress on Saturday.
On August 23, the PDP governors met in Taraba and discussed the crisis looming over the party in the state and backed Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi and chairman of the PDP governors forum, in a communiqué, asked for a review of the party congress outcome to restore Fubara’s leadership role in the state.
Responding on Saturday, Wike asked the governors to stay out of the party’s affairs in Rivers.
“Let nobody be intimidated; I know how it is when you have worked hard and at the end of the day you are pushed away. I know how bad you feel,” the former governor of Rivers said.
“And let me assure all of you. Not while we live will anybody take away the structures of PDP from us.
“I hear that there are some governors who said that they will take away the structure and give it back to somebody. I pity those governors because I’ll put fire in their states.
“When God has given you peace and you say you don’t want peace, then whatever you see, you take. Prepare, because I have the capacity to also do the same thing in your own state.
“Whether you are from Bauchi, as far as I know that you are trying to put yourself in Rivers State, your hand will get burnt, and you will never sleep in your state; you will see political crisis.”
However, Fubara was absent at Saturday’s state congress, attended by some serving and past lawmakers at both federal and state levels.
Wike and Fubara have been involved in a political tussle over the control of the state since 2023.
