Nyesom Wike, the former governor of Rivers State and current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, disclosed that he constructed a mansion for his predecessor, Peter Odili, who is now a political associate with whom he is estranged.
Wike made this revelation during a Special Thanksgiving Service organized by the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Martin Chike Amaewhule in Port Harcourt.
The statement was in response to allegations by Odili that Wike had plans to treat the state as his own personal possession.
Wike said while he was serving as governor of the state, he “personally called Julius Berger to build a mansion for Odili to live in.
“He (Odili) was calling everyone to the house then, telling them, come and see what Wike has done for me. Wike has shown me love. He was taking them round the house,” he claimed.
He, who antagonized Odili’s scorecard for the incumbent Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, said, “the governor that all of us made has not spent one year in office and the same Odili was already saying that the governor has beaten the records of all the past governors of Rivers State.
“You spent eight years as governor and someone who hasn’t spent one year has surpassed your records, what manner of elder talk like that? Is that what an elder statesman should be known for”?
The FCT minister further revealed that when he was governor of the state, “my pictures were everywhere in his house, sitting room, bedroom, kitchen, even in the toilet, my picture was everywhere.“But today, all the pictures have been removed.”
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