Photo: Orji Nwafor – Orizu
Ekunkonye Junior
An Nnewi prince, Orji Nwafor – Orizu, a constitutional lawyer and principal partner of Friends Chambers has drawn President Bola Tinubu’s attentions to what he described as disturbing Rivers State Governor Sim Fubara from performance of his lawful duties, by the former governor of the state and the current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barr Nyesom Wike.
Responding to questions put to him through a telephone interview over the weekend, he wondered, if it is Mr President that permits Wike to go to Rivers to cause havoc every weekend and go back. Urging Mr President to call his Minister to order, he therefore pointed out that Mr President is expected to advise the minister to resign and go back to the state, if he can’t concentrate on his appointment.
Advising Wike to wait for 2017, Prince Orji Nwafor -Orizu told him that the person that sponsored a governor in the last election, can sponsor another tomorrow, even as he reminded him that a person sponsored shouldn’t be seen as a slave. While telling the former governor to stop disturbing the present governor in performance of his lawful duties, the prince accused Wike of quarrelsomeness. He noted that Wike quarreled with: the man who made him governor, Rotimi Amaechi; former President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife and; the state’s current Governor Sim Fubara now.
Reacting to Wike’s justification of decamping of the state’s 27 lawmakers from the PDP to the APC, he reminded him (Wike) of his statement at a time, when he quoted Wike as saying, “anybody who defects from his party to another should be sacked and vacate his seat.”
“Now people are saying that agitations against the issue of the lawmakers in the state should be discontinued, until the court takes a decision; that nobody should take law into his hand. If that is the case, the 27 lawmakers, shouldn’t be taking ultimate decision in impeaching the governor. They should wait, untill judgement comes out. “I think that you have seen my angle.
They are also saying that Fubara and his group should fold their hands and maintain the status quo, pending the outcome of judgement, but the 27 lawmakers are moving to impeach the governor, without minding if court will recognize them as lawmakers. So if Fubara and his group should maintain the status quo, the 27 lawmakers should also maintain the status quo,” he stated.
When the issue of ungratefulness of Fubara over Wike was raised, with the reason that with the exception of Fubara, other newly elected governors aren’t quarelling with their predecessors, the lawyer responded thus: “It is because others aren’t making the kind of demand Wike is making. He wants to take off: governorship from him; the legislators from him; the permanent secretary and everything from him, and at the same time, take a large chunk of the money coming, to his own personal account and leaving the governor, doing nothing. With all these taken from him, you find out that he has no stake in the office as a governor, but a stooge.
“From my experience, what happened in Anambra, between Mbdinuju and Ngige is the typical example of quarelling with a godfather, which causes a lot of money. But he should know that sponsoring isn’t slavery,” he reminded, advising Fubara to continue to be loyal to Mr President and concentrate on government and ignore Wike.
While telling the governor to allow the commission of inquiry he set up to work and prosecute Wike, if found wanton, and live him if not found wanton, he informed that like in the EFCC, the anti graft agency brought out the names of former governors, Wike’s inclusive, that had questions to answer to amount of money, running to trillions of Naira and Peter Obi’s name wasn’t there.
