{"id":116738,"date":"2025-03-13T10:58:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T09:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=116738"},"modified":"2025-03-13T10:58:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T09:58:23","slug":"politics-is-not-play-impeach-fubara-if-necessary-wike-endorses-governors-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/politics-is-not-play-impeach-fubara-if-necessary-wike-endorses-governors-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Politics Is Not Play, Impeach Fubara If Necessary\u2019 \u2013 Wike Endorses Governor\u2019s Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Former Rivers State governor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, says his estranged successor, Governor Siminalayi Fubara, should be impeached if found wanting accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>He said politics is no play and impeaching Fubara would not amount to a criminal offence.<\/p>\n<p>Wike, who said this during a media live chat on Wednesday, lamented that \u201cthree lawmakers\u201d, in veiled referenced to members of the state Assembly loyal to Fubara, could make legislation.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cPolitics is not play. If he has done something to be impeached, let them impeach him. It\u2019s not a criminal offence,\u201d Wike stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot believe that in this country, we are now at the point where Nigerians are talking about where three members of the House will sit and make a law, and they are talking about going to the Supreme Court. Do we need to go to court?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rivers\u2019 political crisis has taken a new dimension since a Supreme Court ruling recognised 27 pro-Wike lawmakers and nullified the local government election conducted in the state in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Wike commended those who challenged illegality, noting that elected officials should not be treated as subordinates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeakers and Assembly members are not our children; they were elected; they are not your boys or your girls. You sit with them and play with them. I travelled with my Speakers, and I created relationships. It\u2019s not a master-servant thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former governor recalled how an elder statesman, Ferdinand Alabararba, who pushed for the emergence of an Ijaw governor, was eventually disrespected by the person he backed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis elder statesman cried; he almost cried. This boy later insulted this elder statesman; now he can\u2019t go back to him for help. Ordinarily, these are the people who will call the family people. 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