Rivers LG Election: Nothing Happened Without Fubara’s Input – Wike

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has revealed how he personally drove to Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s residence in the middle of the night to discuss the recently conducted local government election in Rivers State.

Speaking in an interview on Thursday, Wike insisted that nothing was done without the governor’s involvement.

According to him, Fubara had informed him beforehand that he would not be available during the election because of his son’s engagement.

Wike recounted:

“Governor wanted to come and see me, but I said, no, you’re the governor. So I drove to his house at 1 am.

“I, the former governor of Rivers State, went to him and asked, ‘Your Excellency, what do we do?’ There was nothing that happened without his input.

Even before the election, he travelled and told me he would not be around because his son had an engagement.

“But people just sit somewhere and begin to talk all kinds of things they don’t know, simply because they expected a quarrel. Unfortunately, where people used to collect money is no longer there.”