Abuja, NIGERIA — Amid the continued political intrigues and in his apparent use of trigger words to bait his predecessor, Rivers State Governor Sim Fubara, has dialed up more attacks on the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, referring him as the “rat eating the bag of garri”, all without once uttering the word “Wike”.
Governor Fubara, who avoided referring to Wike by name, openly mocked his predecessor – even recently calling him ‘rat eating the bag of garri’ ‘and “we have now set Otapiapia to finish the rat.”
Otapiapia means rat poison.
Fubara took pains to not even mention Wike by name, but in a somewhat unusual words for the Minister, he said, “there’s a rat in the house that is eating the bag of garri but we have now set the Otapiapia to finish the rat.”
The mockery was met with laughter and exciting applauses during the commissioning of the Aleto-Ebubu-Eteo road in Eleme area of the state yesterday.
According to Fubara, “If we are fighting the Federal Government it’s a different matter, we are talking about the Federal Government that is giving us some support, but there’s a rat in the house that is eating the bag of garri.
“So, you can imagine such a situation but we have now set the Otapiapia to finish the rat.”
The rift between the duo had affected the legislative arm of the state, a situation that had seen defections of state Assembly members and the emergence of factional Speakers.
Despite presidential intervention, Fubara had claimed that the state was overburdened by the debt profile of Wike’s administration.
To this end, the governor vowed to constitute a committee that would probe Wike’s administration.
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