Don’t probe Obaseki - Wike tells Okpebholo

 

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has urged Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo to focus on developing the state, rather than dissipating energy and resources on probing his predecessor, Godwin Obaseki.

Wike, speaking in Benin, Edo State capital, said probing the former governor would achieve no meaningful results, adding that it was better for Governor Okpebholo to deploy his time and the state resources towards achieving his developmental goals in Edo.

In a statement issued yesterday by his Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, 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 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 to 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 your position? If it were to be his power, you wouldn’t be here, but God has told him, you don’t have it and I have given it to whom I want to give.”

The FCT minister also told the former governor of Edo State, Senator Adams Oshiomhole: “Leader, I know how pained you are and what you passed through. I know the sufferings you experienced and it was like a humiliation to you. I was part of it because I humiliated you.

“I apologised 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 to inaugurate the New Edo Line terminal, which is the second phase of Edo State Benin Central Bus Terminal.

The event was, however, cancelled, following the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari.