Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, the founder of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and leader of BIM, has come to the defense of former Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike while placing the blame on Siminalayi Fubara for his removal.
In response to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, Uwazuruike argued that Fubara was responsible for his downfall, asserting that the crisis could have been avoided had Fubara honored his agreement with Wike, who is now the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.
“Whoever advised Fubara to fight Wike, who made him governor, did not advise him well,” Uwazuruike wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday.
He added: “If you know you are a politician and you are approached to do a dirty job which your conscience doesn’t want you to do at that moment, say ‘I won’t do it’ or ‘I can’t do it’, that makes you a gentleman.
“If Fubara had listened to the counsel of some people like Fayose, he would not have fallen into this temptation. It would have been avoided.”
“All of these things happening in Rivers State could have been avoided if one party had kept his part of the promise. This is very common in the Southeast and South-South. When somebody will bring you from obscurity and make you a governor, and at the end of the day, you refuse to keep your part of the bargain. It is not good.
“Some people will say you are voted by the masses, which masses, if nobody gave you the chance or the ticket of the party, the masses would not have seen you to vote for you.
“You want to play a card and you have forgotten that as a civil servant, the highest you could go is becoming the permanent secretary. Somebody brought you out and made you the governor; you turned around to make him a bad guy; it is unjust.”
“There is no better governor in Nigeria who doesn’t steal money because the country is corrupt. Wike is not the only devil in Nigerian politics; all the other governors are devils and corrupt. No one should play the victim card.”
