A former minister of Agriculture and Water Resources and one-time minister of Police Affairs, Adamu Waziri, on Saturday, July 3, 2021 says that with Wike, all attempts by ruling All Progressives Congress to silence the opposition in Nigeria’s politics would fail.
Waziri said, “Yobe has remained in opposition since 1999. All attempts to silence us has failed. In Nigeria also, all attempts to silence opposition will fail under the banner of Governor Wike.
“There are certain dividends (respects) that ordinarily have come to Governor Wike because he has earned them. But Governor Wike is not a Governor for Rivers alone. He is an uncommon Governor in PDP.
“He is giving the Nigeria polity the indispensable ingredient of democracy. And that is, for democracy to thrive, to be useful, for it to flourish, democracy must promote nation-building.”
According to Governor Wike, without the foresight of former Governor Peter Odili, it would have been difficult for his administration to complete the Opobo axis of the Ogoni-Opobo-Andoni Unity Road which he claimed that after 150 years of its existence, the ancient Opobo kingdom, an island in Rivers State can now be accessed by road, following Saturday’s inauguration.
Governor Wike recalled, “Sometimes, you (Opobo Kingdom wrote to me about the erosion in Queen’s Town. I told the Amayanabo the other day that the job was awarded when your son was Commissioner for Works.
“It was awarded to the tune of N3.1bilion. The company collected N2 billion and it ran away from the site. Amayanabo of Opobo, go and ask your son, who is that company that collected the money and refused to do the Queen’s Town shore protection.”
The Amayanabo of Opobo, King Dandeson Douglas Jaja, said the people of his kingdom will remain eternally grateful to the Governor for the humanity he has brought to governance.
