The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has declared that he wanted Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State to contest for a second term.
Wike and Fubara had endured a frosty relationship since the governor assumed office but they recently reconciled their differences.
Amid the crisis between Wike and Fubara, the governor who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had lost in the party’s primary election.
However, speaking during his monthly media chat, Wike said: “We don’t like the truth, I flagged off the ring road and I said that day that if you complete this road, nobody will stop your second term, how do you endorse somebody more than that.”
Asked if he wanted Fubara to do a second term, Wike said: “That’s right, you have to build a system and he’s from our political structure. There is nowhere
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