BY OUR REPORTER
Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Monday evening said he has done everything possible for peace to reign in Rivers State and called on his estranged godfather, predecessor and now Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to allow peace to reign in the state.
Fubara made the call while appearing on prime-time television programme, Politics Today, on Channels Television anchored by Seun Okinbaloye.
Governor Fubara also stated that he didn’t regret conducting the local government election in the state last Saturday despite the fierce opposition to it by people loyal to Wike in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Fubara urged the former governor to drop all the grudges and let go so that he as the governor can concentrate on delivering the dividends of democracy to the people of the state. He said he has done everything humanly possible, to ensure peace reigns in the state, including kneeling down several times. He expressed unhappiness that much of what he is doing are not being heard because every time, the news coming out of Rivers State is that of one crisis or another and to that extent, nobody gets to hear about the good works he is doing in the state.
Fubara said he had kept all understanding he had with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory to ensure peace in Rivers State.
“There is nothing I have not done on this earth for peace to reign. I can tell you the number of times I have knelt down to beg that let’s allow this issue to go. I have done everything,” Fubara said.
On what he would tell Wike if they meet, Fubara said: “I’ll tell him (Wike) that it has gotten to a point where he needs to let go. We need peace in this state. You don’t necessarily need to win all the fights; at times, you just let go for the sake of the good people of Rivers State and the love that you have always profess for the state. We need to secure the state.
“Fubara will leave tomorrow. Who knows who is going to come? It might be through him or through another person but we need to secure the state,” he stated.
