Odili has shown non-statesmanship— Wike’s aide 

Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has expressed disappointment at the comment made against his principal by the former governor of Rivers State, Dr Peter Odili.

Describing Odili as unstatsemanly with unguarded comments not worthy of a person of his status as the former chief executive of Rivers State, Adeyinka noted that Odili had reduced himself to a ridiculous level of partisanship, saying that the FCT Minister, in the days to come, would reply the former governor.

Adeyinka said; “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,” he said

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

It would be recalled that Odili was quoted to have said that the Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, stopped Wike from turning the state to a private estate.

Odili who spoke at a Christmas ballad organised 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.