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Wike and FubaraThe camp of Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, and those loyal to the former governor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, traded words on Wednesday as the commission of inquiry probing the burning of some local government secretariats concluded its sitting.
Three local government secretariats in the state were burnt on October 7 following the mayhem that trailed the conduct of the controversial October 5 local government election in the state.
The probe panel had invited Wike and others, including the Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress in the state, Tony Okocha, but they all shunned the invitation.
The PUNCH reports that former local government chairmen of Ikwerre, Obio/Akpor, Ahoada West and Eleme were summoned by the commission but also shunned the invitation.
Justifying his non-appearance of Wike and others, Okocha said he did not receive any invitation, adding “As far as I am concerned, this one is a political witch-hunt and I’m too big to fall for that trap.”
However, the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Joseph Johnson, said the refusal of Wike and his allies to honour the panel’s invitation was disappointing.
Fubara had, in early October, inaugurated the seven-man panel headed by Justice Ibiwengi Minakiri to investigate the arson, killings and wanton destruction of property in some local government headquarters of the state. Punch
