Former Niger Delta militant, Asari Dokubo, has accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, of wielding excessive power in the current political turmoil, pitting him against his godson and Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara.
Dokubo also criticized President Bola Tinubu for what he sees as the unfair allocation of power in Rivers and Bayelsa States, accusing him of favoring the former governor.
“He is now playing god. It is dead on arrival, all those things that he is doing,” Dokubo said in a video that surfaced online on Monday.
He added, “I advise my friend, President Bola Tinubu; what you are doing to all Ijaw, Ikwerre people in Rivers State. You took Rivers state and gave it to one man.”
In April, Fubara announced that his administration had increased the monthly Internally Generated Revenue of the state from N12 billion, which he inherited, to N27 billion.
Dokubo commended this development but alleged that the governor had access to only N6 billion when he assumed office.
“The governor had come out to say that the IGR for Rivers State is now N25bn up from N12bn. The governor is even being economical with the truth. When the governor came in, they were giving him a paltry sum of N6bn,” he said.
Meanwhile, in another development in the ongoing crisis, Fubara announced on Monday that he would set up a panel of inquiry to investigate the governance affairs of the state.
He administered the oath of office to Dagogo Iboroma, SAN, as the Attorney General of the state and Commissioner for Justice.
The governor criticized recent comments by the former Attorney-General of the State and Justice Commissioner, Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor, SAN, who resigned from his cabinet over a fortnight ago and urged the new Attorney-General to defend the state.
“It is not the one that while you were here… the only thing you do is to sabotage the government.
“Instead of you to close your mouth, you publicly claim that you’re a learned person to tell people that you’re the Chief Law Officer. Chief Law Officer, you were here and went to stand before a Magistrate Court.
“At that time you didn’t remember that you’re a Chief Law Officer going against the ethics of your job.”