Fubara, Florence and Nwaeke
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Florence Nwaeke, the wife of the former Head of Service, HoS, of Rivers State, George Nwaeke, has opened a can of worms.
Mrs Nwaeke rubbished the report of her husband, accusing the suspended state governor, Similanayi Fubara of acts of destruction.
According to her, the former HoS told her he had to resign because he was being pressured to sign a document that would implicate Fubara.
Speaking in an interview with Channels Television, she said her husband insisted that he had no knowledge of certain financial matters he was being questioned about and despite maintaining his stance, he faced mounting pressure to append his signature to a document linked to undisclosed funds.
She said her husband opted to resign rather than to comply with the demands.
The distraught woman added that a friend soon invited the former HoS to Abuja and he insisted on going even after advising him otherwise due to prior commitments, promising to return soon.
He confirmed his safe arrival in Abuja but became unreachable c thereafter.
However, she said she got worried when she got to know about online reports online that he had granted an interview, alleging the suspended Governor, Siminilayi Fubara was behind the destruction of the state House of Assembly among other serious issues.
She doubted the claims attributed to her husband, saying they were alien to his character.
“When I came back and asked him, he started telling me that they brought a document. But in that document, they found another N15 billion that the governor did not declare,” Mrs Neaeke said.
“He told them he didn’t know anything about it. He said what he handed over to them was what the governor handed over to him. And when they pressured him, he said no. Instead of all this, he would leave. He then wrote his resignation, saying he was not working again.”
Dr. Nwaeke, had at a press conference alleged that Fubara was involved in the destruction of the state House of Assembly complex and plotted to bomb oil facilities in the Niger Delta.
He also alleged plots by Fubara to pull down the President Bola Tinubu-led administration, claiming that the governor “clearly” told him “that he is the chief security officer of Rivers State and his brother is in charge of Bayelsa State, and all the pipelines are under their care, that at the appropriate time, they would tell the boys what to do, and fund was not an issue.
“That was why when he made that statement in his public function that “I will tell the boys what to do at the appropriate time” I knew something was up and perhaps the time was near”.
Nwaeke further alleged that Governor Fubara’s plan was to start from “non-Ijaw speaking areas to destroy oil facilities”, stating that the move was to “remove attention from the Ijaw and make it have a statewide look”.
“Ogoni, Oyibo, Ahoda areas were to be bombed first before the Ijaw zones”.
According to him, the plot was to pull down the government of President Tinubu and “usher in a new President from the coalition of political parties with a Vice President from the Ijaw”.
The governor has, however, denied the allegations, calling on Nigerians and the people of the state to disregard everything said by Nwaeke “as they are mere desperate attempts to discredit me and my administration”.
Reacting to Nwaeke’s claims, Fubara expressed bewilderment at the accusations from his once-trusted official.
Speaking in an emotional encounter shown on Channels TV, the embattled governor said: “It’s okay no problem, we’ll try and see what we can do. Anything anybody is doing in this life, if you do good you will meet good if you do bad definitely you will get your reward for the evil. You know my relationship with him. I don’t know where I’ve offended him that he cooked this level of lies against me.”
However, a pall of suspicion has overshadowed Nwaeke’s testimony as he appeared teleguided during the news briefing. A voice was heard telling him to read from the text he was given.
Meanwhile, Fubara also expressed the opinion that the ex-HoS might have been compromised. He shared Whatsapp exchanges between Nwaeke and the governor’s Chief of Staff, Ehis where Nwaeke was begging for money to buttress his point.
