Rivers: I knelt down many times to beg Wike, but refused- Fubara

Siminalayi Fubara, the Governor of Rivers State, has urged Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike to perish the thought of taking over leadership of the state from him.

Fubara, who stated this on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Monday, disclosed that he had knelt down to beg Wike many times to allow peace to reign.

Speaking on the Saturday’s exercise, Fubara said he does not regret conducting local government election in the state despite the resistance by Wike’s men in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC).

He said: ” There is nothing I have not done on this earth for peace to reign. I can tell you the number of times I have knelt down to beg that let’s allow this issue to go. I have done everything.

“I have all the guts to do these things; he should let go of whatever he thinks I did.

“I’ll tell him (Wike) that it has gotten to a point where he needs to let go. We need peace in this state.

“You don’t necessarily need to win all the fights; at times, you just let go for the sake of the good people of Rivers State and the love that you have always profess for the state. We need to secure the state.

“Fubara will leave tomorrow. Who knows who is going come. It might be through him or through another person but we need to secure the state.”