Former Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on Power, Becks Dagogo Jack, has said that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, would not have succeeded as Rivers State governor if he had 27 hostile lawmakers, whom he described as “snakes.”
Dagogo Jack made the statement on Saturday during an interview on Arise Television.
According to him, the ongoing political crisis has negatively affected residents of the oil rich state. He added that the situation has nothing to do with Governor Siminalayi Fubara personally, arguing that any other person from the same area would likely have faced a similar ordeal.
“There was an agenda. The agenda ran into a glitch. Since then, there has been effort to recover instead of pulling back, withdrawing, apologizing and allowing the governor to do his tenure as everybody else has done.
“In fact, it’s because it’s Fubara that it’s impossible for them to succeed, because anybody else who is not as calm, calculating, disciplined, humble would have reacted into their trap. He would have fallen into their trap in the kind of crisis that has been set in all over the place.
“We have 27 Assembly members who have decided that they will not be loyal to the state. They were loyal to an individual, and they constituted themselves into snakes in the House.
“How many people can live in a house with 27 snakes? Even former governor Wike, if he had 27 snakes when he was there, he won’t build all these flyover bridges. He won’t have the peace of mind.
“So it is unfair for these people elected by us in their different local governments to constitute themselves into the kind of danger that they’ve constituted that a man should not do his four years today. It’s difficult to even say you want to assess Fubara because where are you starting from? He’s fighting, he’s working, he’s fighting. He can’t sleep,” he said.
