The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has accused a former Governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili, of encouraging Governor Siminalayi Fubara to disobey President Bola Tinubu.

He blamed Odili for the failure of the peace agreement signed between his camp and Fubara.

Wike spoke during a reception organised to host Rivers State stakeholders on Friday.

The battle for the political control of the state between Fubara and Wike has been raging for a while following the disagreement between the two former allies, now turned foes.

In 2023, Fubara and Wike’s camp signed a peace agreement. The eight-point peace deal was brokered by Tinubu and other stakeholders, including Odili, at a crucial meeting in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

But the peace deal fell apart, with Fubara alleging that he was ambushed into signing a peace deal with Wike’s camp.

Odili, a two-term governor of Rivers State, accused Wike of self-interest.
Speaking at an event in Port Harcourt on December 28, he commended Fubara for preventing Wike from turning the state into his private estate.

“It has now been over 12 months since the 25th of October 2023, when a fierce existential fight, though unnecessary, was waged against Governor Fubara over the soul of Rivers State.

“With assuring fortitude, 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 until I left office in 2007,” Odili said.

But Wike fired back at Odili on Friday, insisting that he remained the best governor the state had ever produced.

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