The Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, has said his successor in Rivers State, suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, visited him recently to seek peace.

According to Wike, Fubara came with two governors and an elder statesman to resolve the crisis rocking Rivers State, which led to his suspension.

Wike disclosed this during a media chat on Monday.

He said, "The President has said severally that he wants peace, so I cannot sit down and say I don't want peace. Yes, he visited with two Governors and an elder statesman. Unfortunately, they are from the APC, and he said he wants peace. I will not pursue him, I also want peace. I told him as a young man, I said go this way, go this way, you will not have problems. People came to him, 'Don't listen to him, assert yourself as governor,' you have accepted nah, now trouble has come.

"People push you, push you, they declared State of Emergency, who wears the shoe? It is you. Who will suffer? Ok, assuming now you don't settle this problem and the State of Emergency is called off, has the problem ended? No. The assembly will still be the same as they have been, so the crisis will still be there. They will not pass your budget, you won't get Federal Allocation.

"If he wants peace, there are people he should meet. Has he met the Assembly members? Has he met our leaders? If you want peace, it must show in your speech, in your conduct, and in your actions. When you hurt people, it's not a one-day thing.

"If I don't want to encourage him, why will I say no problem? Why will I even open my gate for him to come in? Seeing him talking, I am human, I felt for him. He was saying yesterday that his spirit has left there. How will I know his spirit has left there? I am not carried away by public sympathy but by reality. After all, we see some preachers say they are led by the spirit, we later find out there is no spirit."

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