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Umar Sani, former senior special adviser on media and publicity to former Vice President Namadi Sambo, has dismissed threats by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to instigate crisis in any state whose governor interferes with the politics of Rivers State.
He insisted that they were empty threats, adding that Wike lacks the the authority and means to instigate crisis in other states.
Sani stated this during an interview with Arise News.
He argued that Wike’s assertions of potential disruption are unfounded.
Sani maintained that only the Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic, who possesses the requisite instruments of power, could execute such actions.
He said, “There is no way for anybody to say he can cause crisis in any state unless he is saying I will use the instrument of the federal government to cause crisis. By being merely, a minister of the federal capital territory cannot go and cause crisis in other states, because he is not the commander-in-chief, he does not have the instrument of causing crisis and I don’t know what type of crisis he means.
“Whatever crisis he means, i think it’s an empty boast. He cannot do anything and I urge the national working committee to tow the path of the governors’ forum to do the right thing in Rivers State because we cannot afford at the time that we are looking for ways and means to clinch the presidency to now be in disarray.”
“The introduction of Wike’s shenanigans into the party is because at least for the first time, the PDP governors’ forum has now taken the bull by the horn to now speak the truth.
“Previously, the governor’s forum was neither here nor there. So, they left the party at the whims of the two factions. Now that they have decided to weigh in, definitely, they will correct all the anomalies that are inherent because with the constitution of the PDP, it is very clear who is the leader of the party in a particular state; the governor of the party in any state, is the leader of the party.”
