Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), clarified on Sunday that he did not extend an invitation to President Bola Tinubu to mediate in the political turmoil within Rivers State.
Speaking during a thanksgiving ceremony for the former Commissioner for Works, George Kelly Alabo, at the Kings’ Assembly in Port Harcourt, Wike made this statement.
In the previous week, a resolution emerged between the conflicting parties of Wike and Governor Fubara after a meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The outcome of this meeting comprised an eight-point resolution aimed at alleviating the prevailing tension in the state.
During the church service, Wike expressed gratitude to President Tinubu for his intervention in the crisis, clarifying that the initiative did not originate from an invitation extended by himself.
“Don’t pull the ladder you used to climb up. If you know you are coming back, the ladder you have pulled down, I don’t know how you will come down.
“I want the church to continue praying for us and not let us fail. We must thank Mr President for interfering and intervening, but I was not the one who invited Mr President. People are saying the president is intervening.
“You are the one who said the president should intervene and he has intervened. You now turned around and said that he does not have a constitutional right.
“No matter what the circumstances are, the president invited me to the meeting. I have subjected myself to the peace process.
“Some of you did not even know that Mr President had invited us privately and said do this and we agreed before Mr President before him. We must tell our people this simple truth. I have done my own part. I am happy and I am doing well in Abuja, too.”
