By Musa Baba Adamu
A political analyst, Mahmud Jega, says the intervention of President Bola Tinubu in the political crisis between Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, will rather perpetuate the matter instead of solving it.
Jega said this during an interview on Arise Television monitored in Abuja.
According to him: “As far as I can see, president Tinubu’s intervention will perpetuate the crisis, instead of resolving it.
“To say that Wike is the undisputed political leader in Rivers, contradicts the APC constitution, as initiated recently by the party’s National Secretary and the National Chairman that governors are the leaders of the party in their states.
“Now, you are saying that Wike is the leader when he is not even a member of the APC. That says a lot because even the National Secretary was saying that Wike, if you want, you can come into our party, otherwise you shouldn’t meddle.
“But the President seems to be saying, if this report is correct, that Wike’s remaining in the PDP, and what he’s doing there really has my blessing, because he is there essentially to wreck the PDP as an opposition party in the service of the President’s 2027 re-election hopes.
“So, honestly, this does not look like an attempt to solve the problem. Instead, it is to hand over the knife and everything to Minister Wike to continue the role that he is playing as leader of Rivers politics in both APC and PDP. This has never happened in the political history of Nigeria.”
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