As his political rift with his successor, Governor Sim Fubara continues, former Rivers state governor and now Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, has said that “Nobody has the monopoly of causing violence.”
Wike made the statement in Port Harcourt, the state capital on Saturday, September 28, at the Rivers State Ijaw Peoples Congress organised in his honour. Wike also used the opportunity to clear the air about public perception that Fubara was speaking the mind of the entire Ijaw people as both battled for supremacy.
He said;
“Let me thank this team for this strategic meeting here today. First of all, when I was approached by Senator Johnson Nsakebor. He was sent by the Rivers Ijaw Congress, that they want to honour me. I asked what the essence of such was. Why do you want to waste such money? I need the money. Give it to me. But he said so many people go on Television and speak as if they speak on behalf of the Ijaw people. I said okay, I will come and let Nigerians know.
This gathering here today is a message to those of them in Abuja who don’t understand. So if anybody tells you one day, that the Ijaw people are fighting me. It is not correct. We have some ungrateful people everywhere. A father can have twelve children and one can be an armed robber. Does that mean that the whole family are armed robbers?
So, all these people going to television to say Ijaw people are fighting me. Ask them, where all the Ijaw people in the House of Assembly were positioned.
Who has Fubara made? All the things you see are people who are envious of our growth. They couldn’t do what we are doing today. These are people who we have defeated politically severally. If the opportunity comes again, we will defeat them again.
I have made an Ijaw man governor of Rivers State. God used us. All of us here had sleepless nights. So who loves Ijaw more? Is it people who come out on television who can not even make their Ijaw brother governor? If they were that powerful, since the old Rivers State, has Ijaw ever become governor? Where are they?
I have told people that nobody has a monopoly on causing violence. The mere fact that we choose to play according to the rule of law. To be calm and not to turn ourselves into where investors would run away, and that is what we will continue to do.”