Siminalayi Fubara, Rivers State Governor, on Wednesday, dismissed a former commissioner who recently criticised him, describing him as a “drug addict.”
The governor who apparently, responded to one of the former commissioners loyal to his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, who recently criticised him, said the ex-commissioner talked carelessly.
He said, “I heard one drug addict telling people that I would have been in level 14 or 15. You know when you don’t know people, you talk carelessly and when you are already high, what do you expect?
“If in 2010 I was the Chief Accountant, most of you who know the civil service, where would I be before 2022
“When you see people because you want to impress your paymaster, you talk carelessly. But I won’t reduce myself to that kind of talk.”
With the disagreement between Fubara and Wike, commissioners loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory have been resigning from the governor’s cabinet.
On Wednesday alone, five commissioners loyal to Wike resigned their appointments with Fubara.
The number brought to nine, the number of commissioners who have so far resigned their appointments.
