The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike yesterday stressed that he would not tender an apology to former Governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili over recent negative remarks he made against the elder statesman.
The FCT Minister said this at a luncheon he organised for his political associates and stakeholders at his residence in Port Harcourt.
Wike was reacting to a call earlier yesterday, by some elders in Rivers State, under the aegis of Concerned Elders of Rivers State for him to tender an unreserved apology to Odili, following his recent derogatory remarks against the founder of PAMO University of Medical Sciences.
Wike, once more, alleged that Odili switched an appointment meant for his nephew to his daughter, maintaining that it was the elder statesman that had converted the State to his personal estate, describing Odili as a “Bishop.”
He said: “They said I should apologise for what? There is no law that says their daughter should not take up appointment, I agree. But I said as an elder statesman, you should not have given what belongs to your nephew to your daughter. Did I say that there is a law that said that your daughter should not be something?
“But you said somebody is converting Rivers State to his personal estate. It is not correct. The man who is converting Rivers state to personal estate is you (Odili) and to crown it up, you are now the general overseer.
“I didn’t say anything wrong, so you cannot kill me for what I didn’t say. They said Tinubu should be careful with somebody like me. Tinubu is not like you (Odili). If you are a good person, Tinubu called Rivers people, as an elder statesman he wanted you to make peace, but you came home, ordinarily what you would have done is to call Mr. President back and tell him how you have tried to implement some of them and ask him if there is any way you can do the rest, rather you disobeying everything.
” When my father is doing something wrong, should I not say ‘Papa, this is not what you said yesterday?’ Is that to make him cry? I ran in an election for Local government in 1999, and since then till now I have never lost an election. Nobody whom I supported has ever lost an election.”
