Tinubu that you pretend to worship was in my class of 1999 governors. He didn’t even have the guts to contest for President as I did in 2007 and now a rat like you, serving under Tinubu, dare to insult me?

Idiot! What did I say? How dare you? Do I look like your boss who doesn’t know the university he attended?

I said Fubara stopped you from converting the state treasury to your private estate. I said Fubara is not fighting a personal war but a war of liberation. What is untrue in this?

Is it not true that you have ambushed and unleashed political bandits on the state because Governor Fubara denied you continuous control of the treasury?

Is it not true that the state IGR has grown more than 100 billion since Governor Fubara cut off your monkey hands from the treasury?

Is it not true that Governor Fubara had embarked on humongous infrastructural developments without borrowing because he shielded the treasury from your gang of marauders?

Is it not true that unlike you, Governor Fubara is not building five-star hotels and shopping malls for himself but building infrastructure for the state?

And you dare to disrespect me for saying so?

I don’t blame you. I blame Mbata and Amaechi for digging you from the dustbin. Why, for goodness sake, did I even listen to them to allow you to be a local government chairman? Gush!

You run your dirty mouth saying that you did this for me, you did that for me. Would you have been anything if I hadn’t made Amaechi the governorship candidate in 2007 and if Amaechi had not appointed and nominated you into positions?

You built a mansion for me. Was it your father’s money you gave to Julius Berger to build the house? Is the house as big as the mansions you and Amaechi got as benefits through legislative banditry? Was I not also a Deputy Governor and a Governor?

You are now Jesus Christ who brought me back to life, who resuscitated PAMO Clinic and sustained PAMO University. Idiot.

You said that I had your pictures in my bedroom and toilet. What for? To gaze at my wife and me with your drunken and adulterous eyes?

You must be high on something to say that I did nothing as governor. Who built the huge power plants at Trans-Amadi and Omoku that your oga sold under your running nose? Who built the new Government House? Not to mention the new House of Assembly and the Judicial Complex.

I was not like you, who used your entire first term acquiring massive personal wealth only to cover your atrocities with a dozen flyovers in your second term to fool and distract the people.

And you dare question my position as an elder statesman? Because I chose to stand with the people against your greed? I did the same for you when you were governor. The role of an elder is not to take sides with evil.

Let me advise you little rascal. The sooner you allow the state that has done so much for you to have some peace, the better for you. You have disturbed Rivers State enough.

Rivers people have endured and survived your atrocities as Local Government Chairman, Chief of Staff, Minister, Governor and now as a disruptor. But when Rivers people decide to cook for you …..

Ride on Governor Odili, louder, fire on, don’t turn off the microphone … and I woke up from the harmattan-induced sleep. It was a dream and I feel like going back to sleep to hear the concluding part of the former governor’s reply to Wike.

Sotonye Ijuye-Dagogo

02/01/25