Forgive Wike’s utterances against you – Minister’s kinsmen beg Odili

PORT HARCOURT: Kinsmen of the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Chief Nyesom Wike, have pleaded with the former governor of the state, Dr Peter Odili, to forgive their brother (Wike) over his recent statement against him (Odili).

The Minister of FCT had stated that Odili has personalized the state to himself, and that he (Wike) restored life to Odili and family, even as he noted that Odili has no justification to speak against him.

The former governor, Odili, had earlier said without name calling, that Governor Siminialayi Fubara, has successfully prevented one man from converting the state into his private estate.

However, responding to the statement in Port Harcourt, Initiative for Transparent Strategy and Good Leadership, stated that the attack by Wike on Odili was unnecessary.

President General of the body, Barr Chizy Enyi, who is a kinsman of the Minister of FCT, said it was wrong for Wike to say the many unprintable things against the former Governor Odili, when he (Odili) did not openly call out his name in the earlier speech.

Enyi expressed worries that Wike was referring to the same man whom he had declared was responsible for his success in politics, exonerating Odili of the allegations by Wike.

He said: “Our worry is that this is the same Nyesom Wike, who publicly in a live television said that if not for Sir Dr. Peter Odili and his wife, he could not have made it to be the governor of Rivers State.

“He swore that any day, he would say anything that would make the family of Dr. Odili to cry, that God should not allow him to grow. However, we have come to a realisation that his stock in trade is to say one thing and do another. In the same way, he bragged that he could never be a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria again, and today, what is he……See More