{"id":144756,"date":"2025-01-04T11:50:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T10:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/rivers-you-cant-kill-me-tinubu-not-like-you-wike-tells-odili"},"modified":"2025-01-04T12:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T11:55:57","slug":"rivers-you-cant-kill-me-tinubu-not-like-you-wike-tells-odili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-you-cant-kill-me-tinubu-not-like-you-wike-tells-odili","title":{"rendered":"Rivers: You can\u2019t kill me, Tinubu not like you \u2013 Wike tells Odili"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has declared that the former Governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, cannot kill him.<\/p>\n<p>Wike made this remark while accusing Odili of disobeying President Bola Tinubu regarding the Rivers peace deal, following the ongoing rift with Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a New Year luncheon he organized at his country home in Obio-Akpor on Friday, Wike dismissed calls by some Rivers State elders for him to apologize to Odili over his recent comments.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wike, he had done nothing wrong and vowed to resist being bullied by anyone.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThey 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?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t say anything wrong, so you cannot kill me for what I didn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said elders said I should apologize. Apologize for what?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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\u2019t say, \u2018I didn\u2019t say so.\u2019 If he had said he didn\u2019t say that, I would have apologized. But he didn\u2019t deny the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t abuse anybody. I said our elder statesman was the one telling people the kind of mansion and castle I built for him. I didn\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has declared that the former Governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, cannot kill him. 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