APC Caretaker Chairman Tony Okocha Calls Wike Mentor to Governor Fubara

The Caretaker Committee Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, has described Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as the mentor of Governor Sim Fubara.

Okocha emphasized that Fubara owes his governorship to Wike, calling him Wike’s political investment.

He noted that Fubara would not have become governor without Wike’s support.

During an appearance on Channels Television’s “Politics Today,” Okocha elaborated on the rift between Wike and Fubara, attributing it to efforts to preserve Wike’s political structure in Rivers State.

He said: “Governor Fubara is Wike’s political investment.

From civil servant to the candidate of a party and delivering him in 23 local governments out of 23, the first in our history, all of these were Wike’s ability to manoeuvre. The former governor has said, ‘I am not asking you for anything.

I am only saying that you are destroying the structure that produced you.’ If you are a politician, no politician will allow his structure to be dismantled. When you do that, it means that you have no home to fall back to. That is the issue.”

Fubara and Wike have been at odds over the control of the political landscape in Rivers State.

In a related development, the Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday dismissed an order by a Rivers High Court that restrained Martin Amaewhule and 24 others from parading themselves as lawmakers of the State Assembly.

A three-member panel of the appellate court, led by Jimi Olukayode-Bada, ruled that the trial court lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the suit, noting that such matters can only be heard and determined by a federal high court.