By Kolawole Ojebisi
Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) and one time Senate President, Senator Adolphus Wabara, has berated the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, for using unprintable words and comments against him regarding the crisis rocking the PDP.
Wike had, on Monday, said if Wabara were his father, he would have disowned him while reacting to a position allegedly taken by the former Senate President in the rift between him and his successor and Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara.
The minister also accused the former Senate President of escalating the crisis rocking the PDP by planning to oust Umar Damagum and Sam Anyanwu as the party’s National Chairman and Secretary respectively despite subsisting court rulings.
But responding to Wike’s comment, Wabara said the former Rivers State governor is always whooshing “like a broken water pipe without tap” instead of making sensible comments.
Wabara said as an elder statesman and former Nigeria’s Number Three Citizen, it would not be dignifying of him to begin to trade words with the FCT Minister.
Wabara said he had expected the FCT Minister to refrain from unguarded utterances, at least as a mark of respect for the position he occupies as a Minister of the Federal Republic, and as a former Governor.
The PDP leader also said it was disgraceful for a supposed man of honour to speak without decorum, adding that “spewing gibberish like a broken water pipe without a tap is not a mark of maturity”.
“I will expect a man of his calibre and status to mind his language and words. He should be sure of his facts. But I don’t want to join issues with Wike and dignify him.
“Frankly for a son to disown his father, his father must have wronged him terribly. Can Wike please tell the world what it is I did wrong to him?
“Talking about corruption, Nigerians know those who are corrupt, and I can proudly say and beat my chest that I’m not one of them I, Adolphus Wabara, I’m not corrupt! I won’t be joining issues with people who have no respect for elders.”
