Rivers: I won’t apologise to Odili, he can’t kill me – Wike

• Wike said he had not wronged Odili in anyway for him to apologise to him and said he would not allow himself to be bullied by anyone.

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has stated that he does not owe the former Governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, an apology.

Wike said he had not wronged Odili in anyway for him to apologise to him and said he would not allow himself to be bullied by anyone.

He also accused Odili of disobeying President Bola Tinubu regarding the Rivers peace accord broached to settle the ongoing rift with Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State.

He spoke at a New Year luncheon he organized at his country home in Obio-Akpor on Friday.

He said: “They said I should apologize; for what? That there is no law that says their daughter should not, but I said as an elder statesman, should you have given what belongs to your nephew to your daughter?

“Did I say that there is a law that says your daughter should not be something? But you said somebody is converting Rivers State to his personal estate. It’s not correct. The man who is converting Rivers State to a personal estate is you, and to crown it up, you are now the general overseer.

“I didn’t say anything wrong, so you cannot kill me for what I didn’t say. Tinubu is not like you. If you are a good person, Tinubu called Rivers people. As an elder statesman, he wanted you to make peace, but you came home. Ordinarily, what you should have done was to call Mr. President back and tell him how you have tried to implement some of them. Is there any way we can do the rest? Rather, you disobeyed.

“They said elders said I should apologize. Apologize for what?

“I said that I heard and I read that somebody who should be our elder statesman said this thing today and said a different thing tomorrow, and I said no. No elder statesman should say that. And the elder statesman didn’t say, ‘I didn’t say so.’ If he had said he didn’t say that, I would have apologized. But he didn’t deny the statement.

“I didn’t abuse anybody. I said our elder statesman was the one telling people the kind of mansion and castle I built for him. I didn’t say I said so. It is not me who said it. It is the man who is supposed to be an elder statesman that said so. You are the one going about telling people what I did.”