Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant (SSA), Public Communications and New Media to Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike, has described as disappointing, comments made against his principal by a former Governor of Rivers State, Dr Peter Odili.
Decrying the loss of statesmanship by Odili, the minister’s aide said the former governor has reduced himself to a ridiculous level of partisanship.
He promised that in the coming days, Odili would get a deserved response from Wike.
Odili had commended Governor Sim Fubara for standing up to Wike, whom he accused of the quest to turn Rivers State to his personal estate.
Olayinka, while reacting to Odili’s comment, said: “Read the comments made by the former Governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili on the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, today, and I can’t but be disappointed that someone who should be acting like an elder statesman can reduce himself to such ridiculous level of partisanship.
“Well, he will get his deserved response from the FCT Minister in due course,” Olayinka said.
Odili was quoted to have said that the Rivers governor, Siminalayi Fubara stopped Wike from turning the state to a private estate.
Odili, who spoke at a Christmas ballad organized by him in honour of Governor Fubara and his family, said the governor summoned an unusual fortitude to confront the quest by Wike to capture Rivers state through ferocious, but unnecessary political war.
“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” he said.