By Kolawole Ojebisi
Olalere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication and Social Media to the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, has expressed disappointment over the comments made against his principal by a former Governor of Rivers state, Dr Peter Odili.
Olayinka said Odili’s comments concerning the frosty relationship between Wike and his successor and the incumbent governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, reeked of partisanship.
He stressed that that kind of stance is unbecoming of a person of Odili’s political status, who is supposed to be an “elder statesman”.
Wike’s aide, however, vowed that Odili would get a deserved response from his principal.
“Read the comments made by the former Governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili on the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, today, and I can’t but be disappointed that someone who should be acting like an elder statesman can reduce himself to such ridiculous level of partisanship.
“Well, he will get his deserved response from the FCT Minister in due course”, Olayinka wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday night.
Recall that Dr Odili was quoted to have said that the Rivers governor, Siminalayi Fubara stopped Wike from turning the state to a private estate.
Odili who spoke at a Christmas ballad organized by him in honour of Governor Fubara and his family, said the governor summoned an unusual fortitude to confront the quest by Wike to capture Rivers state through ferocious, but unnecessary political war.
“Governor Fubara confronted the challenge, prevented the quest by one man to capture the State as a private estate, emancipated Rivers people, steadied governance and made civil servants and Rivers people happier as it used to be” he said.
