‘Insinuation Of Associating With Fubara’s Team Is Absolute Nonsense’ – APC Chieftain, Okocha

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, has dismissed claims of wanting to join Governor Sim Fubara’s camp.

Naijaonpoint reports that Okocha, during an interview on ARISE TV on Wednesday, said any report or picture of him meeting with the chairman of Obio/Akpor local government in Rivers to facilitate the move to join Fubara’s team was a mere hallucination.

He said, ” It is Absolute nonsense. I am thinking of diction that is stronger than hallucination. For anybody to imagine that at my level I have attained in politics, if I want any meeting or something to be brokered, I will go to Chijioke Ihunwo …”

Speaking on the attack of Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on former Governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili, Okocha said it was wrong to take sides in the Rivers State crisis.

The APC chieftain maintained that Wike had no intention of disparaging Odili, noting that the elder statesman should have called the warring parties together to settle them rather than backing one party against another.

He said, “If I am to interpret what the FCT minister said, the FCT minister merely said to the governor, I mean, to our leader, Dr. Peter Odili, that you are a father, and that the role of a father is not to take sides when children are having disagreements. That’s my understanding. Because it was overreaching for the former governor, the man that we respected so much in River State.

“We still respect him so much in Rivers State. He brought some measure of pride to the state. I’m sure Nigerians haven’t forgotten the resource control cap that he introduced in Nigeria. So he had carried that aura along for a long while.

“I’m not holding forth for the minister of the FCT, but in all of these scenarios that I’ve noted, I was present. It’s not like a reporter’s speech. I was present and sitting pretty at the table near the high table, as people would call it. ”