Austin Tam George, a former Rivers State Commissioner for Data and Communication, has described the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, as a destabilising power in Rivers State, accusing him of making an attempt to exert godfatherism over the state’s political affairs.
He argued that the transfer to question the governor is a calculated try to reassert political management and scale back Fubara’s rising affect.
Tam George, who served underneath Wike’s administration, made the remarks on Thursday whereas talking on Prime Time on Come up Tv.
He mentioned he resigned as commissioner resulting from what he described as Wike’s propensity for chaos and instability and the discount of governance to a personality-driven system.
In line with him, the present political stress within the state is the end result of Wike’s long-standing strategy to energy, which he mentioned is now manifesting in efforts to manage the state for private political affect.
He mentioned: “Nyesom Wike has been a full pestilence on Rivers state. I served in his administration as commissioner for info. As , I resigned exactly because of these, his propensity for chaos, for instability and decreasing authorities to a persona cult, kind of. And I’m so disenchanted that this propensity has now crystallized at present to a stage the place the state is now held by the juggler by one that thinks that he might be political godfather over the remainder of Rivers state.
“However what I assume goes to occur on this closing part of this battle is that Rivers’ individuals finally are going to withstand and defeat this tendency to need to privatize the state, to need to seize the state for his personal private aggrandizement.
“Governor Fubara has been a wonderful administrator. I need to say he’s spending cash constructing individuals’s capability, lifting communities out of poverty. Cash you’ll have anticipated that he would have diverted to political godfathers are actually being spent in important sectors equivalent to training, the place he’s utterly remodeling the sector, in well being the place virtually all of the tertiary well being care techniques are revived, 122 major well being care facilities unfold throughout the 23 native authorities areas.
“There’s a whole transformation occurring on a sector by sector foundation, and this has endeared the governor to the individuals of the state.
“Now there’s a sturdy probability that he could also be looking for a second time period to develop his legacy and to consolidate his achievements for the profit of all. And it will imply that there’s going to be, , a discount of Wike’s affect.
“So what you see as an impeachment transfer is an try to attempt to reassert what they take into account to be their leverage in opposition to the governor.”
