By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has urged the Edo State governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo to concentrate on the development of the State, and not to waste his energy and resources to probe of his immediate predecessor, Godwin Obaseki.
Wike, gave out this piece of advise in Benin, Edo State, on Sunday evening, adding that probing the former governor will achieve no meaningful results, but that it was better for Governor Okpebholo to desisipate his time and the State resources towards achieving his developmental goals Edo State and its people.
In a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, the FCT Minister Wike said, “If there is someone who would have encouraged Okpebholo to probe and prosecute Obaseki, that person should be me, but what I suffered in ensuring that he returned for a second term and how he paid me back is now in the past.”
“We must pass through this process in life, move on for the development of Edo State. Don’t do it, I’m the one that should have told you pursue this man, I know what I passed through.”
“I should be the one to prosecute Obaseki but what is it in life when God has given you position. If it were to be his power, you won’t be here, but God has told him, you don’t have it and I have given it to whom I want to give.”
Wike also admonished the former Governor of Edo State, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, and said, “Leader, I know how pained you are and what you passed through, I know the sufferings, you suffered and it was like a humiliation to you. I was part of it because I humiliated you.”
“I apologized on national TV to you, sorry for what I did to you, leave it and let them carry their wahala and go, focus on the development of Edo and you will see what you will achieve at the end of the day.”
Wike was in Benin, Edo State on Sunday, to commission the New Edo Line terminal, which is the second phase of the Edo State Benin Central Bus Terminal, today.
The event was however cancelled owing to the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
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