A group under the aegies of Rivers Professional Women League has condemned the attitude of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike heaping blame on suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara each time Rivers people protest against injustice and high handedness in the state.
In a statement signed by the President, Nimi Fiberisima, the Secretary, Jennifer Boms Wolugbom and the Director of Publicity, Tambari Menete, respectively, the group pointed out that the minister’s recent response linking Fubara to the walkout staged by Rivers women, on Friday, was another baseless attempt to spin the narrative to sooth his purpose.
”Each time, Chief Nyesom Wike wants to use every reaction of Rivers people against injustice, high handedness and inequities against them to blackmail an elected governor of the people before President Bola Tinubu.
” As it is, using the peaceful disposition of Rivers people to hunt them has become the article in trade in recent times and it will be unfair and counter productive to continue on this path of blackmail. Need we remind Chief Nyesom Wike that the rain does not fall on the roof of one man alone. What affects the eyes also affect the nose”, it stated.
Furthermore, the group denied involvement of the suspended governor in the women’s walkout.
”Gov. Siminalayi Fubara is not by any means involved or directed any of the Rivers Women to act on his behalf as to what transpired in Port Harcourt on Friday, May 2, 2025.
”The women are just organic supporters who do not want to be taken for a ride. Much as Governor Siminalayi Fubara is toeing the path of peace and embarking on reconciliation process, does not translate to enslavement and/or insulting the sensibility of Rivers people as being manipulated.
‘It is apparent that Rivers women did not and cannot walk out on the First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu or disrespect her husband, President Bola Tinubu. Such a narrative is the imaginative spinning of Chief Nyesom Wike to blackmail Rivers people as always. What people failed to understand is that political position is transient and in no time this phase of history will pass and all the actors will also fizzle out, some on the good side and some others on the bad side.
”Particular note should be taken that a similar event in Delta saw Nursing School students express their discontent in the presence of the First Lady and no one shouted blue murder against the governor or linked the action to the Governor even though the students were mobilised by the State. Why are things always different in Rivers State just because Wike is a Minister? the statement read.
