‘Peter Odili’s Statement Disappointing, Will Get Response In Due Course’ – Lere Olayinka

ABUJA: Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, the Federal Capital Territory FCT minister, Lere Olayinka has described as disappointing, comments made against his principal by a former Governor of Rivers state, Dr Peter Odili.

Decrying the loss of statesmanship by Dr Odili, Olayinka said the former governor has reduced himself to a ridiculous level of partisanship.

In the coming days, Odili would get a deserved response from Wike.

“(I) Read the comments made by the former Governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili on the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, today, and I can’t but be disappointed that someone who should be acting like an elder statesman can reduce himself to such ridiculous level of partisanship.

“Well, he will get his deserved response from the FCT Minister in due course”, Olayinka said on Saturday night.

Dr Odili was quoted to have said that the Rivers governor, Siminalayi Fubara stopped Wike from turning the state to a private estate.

Odili who spoke at a Christmas ballad organized by him in honour of Governor Fubara and his family, said the governor summoned an unusual fortitude to confront the quest by Wike to capture Rivers state through ferocious, but unnecessary political war.

“Governor Fubara confronted the challenge, prevented the quest by one man to capture the State as a private estate, emancipated Rivers people, steadied governance and made civil servants and Rivers people happier as it used to be” he said.