 নো অসাএএ মা� activists began Nueida's zooming processorÍ ежду ইাtrl�রে নো আনো� değild�ো ম঳ইব� Indones� না পা, Druzh The river status of assembly has reportedly begun the impeachment process against state governor Simi Nalai Fubara. Consequently, the assembly has directed a clerk of the House to serve governor Fubara with the impeachment notice. The assembly had earlier impeached the majority leader of the House Honourable Eddie Cinellier to apparently pave the way for the impeachment proceedings against the governor. Governor Fubara had also stormed the assembly complex where he addressed his supporters, saying he had not committed any impeachable offence to warrant the move against him, while assuring the people of rivers of getting the dividends of democracy. Joining me to discuss this is Alessta Wilcos, economic and political affairs analyst. Wilcos, thank you for guesting on Plus Politics. Hello Wilcos. I can hear you now. I don't know why black man looks when he is blushing but... Alessta, what is happening in river state? If I may ask somebody who is aboriginally from rivers. Well, if it's aboriginally, when I was in there, I was very full that I'm from river state and that's where I grew up. So you are right to say aboriginally I'm from river state. And it saddens me that because I'm involved and I've known the politics of river state since 1999. I can even date back the post of river state to 1979 when Mephodokilo was governor. I know the squabble between Mephodokilo and Mr. One of the who was of the MPP. There has not been lack of theater practice in river state politics. I remember the famous election between Peter O'Dilley and the former MPP. So these are some of the theatrics. And each time from 1999, any time you try to bring a government to a march in river state politics, it is always met with this kind of situation. River state cannot be Lagos. The way the Lagos got father managed the political sense that he brought into Lagos was quite different. The template was totally different from other states. Every other state that has tried to be a Godfather and to create God's sense in politics, they've all failed. You want to talk about your Jesus of Calabaria state? It failed woefully because not up to six months till the latest one, Oshimole with what is his name now, the governor of those states. Babaseke. No love lost. Babaseke, it failed. So you want to talk about Apabio with a man well. It failed so they are not able to copy the Lagos model because they do not understand what it takes to be a Godfather. I foresee what was happening during river state. I foresaw it coming because when we came home elsewhere in river state politics, it's as if he captured the river state people. And the river state people willingly, I'm saying this adversely because I forewarned, I said some of these things in too many forums. I forewarned that when we came to Kuba, he became an emperor. No disrespect to him because he ended up capturing every reverse man to his full and everyone become subject to wicked memes and caprices. So he felt he has arrived as an emperor and he could install a puppet in the presence of Siminalai Fubara. Who was not a politician? Who was a Korsimus servant? And who was the captain general of river state as the time we came here this way? He kept everybody in the dark as to who he wants to succeed in. And when the time of Burma came, he brought a joker. He has to create enmity between himself and the other mainstream members of the PDP talking about people like Zekiwok, people like the chairman, the then chairman of PDP Sekondus and Siminalai Fubara. In fact, he sent one of the contestants to prison. I can't remember his name now. And then he emerged with Sim, Sim emerged. He protected Sim even when the EFCC had a case of 185 billion fraud against him. He against him through Sim. Sim was arrested, he protected Sim, covered him up, pampered him and then brought him to power. So he felt he has brought him a puppet. But you know, you know politics. The moment you get power, you will get new interests that will come to play. And presently, Wike is not in the good state because he is more of an abudia politician than a home politician. He is now more of the assistant president of Nigeria. I am not on this advice as an assistant president because anybody in LCT that is governing LCT is like an assistant president in the country. So he has a whole job. So there will be new interests in reverse state that will want to also accept authority and they will go to Sim in order to change the dynamics. That is actually what is up to the university right now. So if I may just infer from some of your reasons and submissions, it may now be turning out to be a mistake for Wike to have accepted the appointment in abudia because if you were sitting behind down in rivers, probably he will still have a masterly control of the situation. Yes, you see, there is no case in the fact that all politics is local in this part of the country. You know, remember when I was a student, I said I wanted to go to the senate. I am sure some very close people have called him and said, Hey man, if you see want to hold Lagos, the many Lagos, you quickly change this mind and call there a Solomon. No, he used it to pacify Solomon. Solomon was one of those who were very angry that he ultimately anointed Fashola and many of them changed parties but Solomon decided he wasn't going to change party, but he knew Solomon was unhappy so he compensated. The fact is he could be without a Solomon but you also know that he misses this. And if you are not on ground, you are not on ground. Remember what Amethi did? When Wike was becoming too powerful in reverse, what did Amethi do? He sent him to Abudia. He sent him to Abudia. When did he become powerful in reverse politics because Wike was the face of Abudia. So when Amethi was becoming too powerful, what did he send to Abudia? Unfortunately, that was his own undoing because he got to Abudia and got in line with the person of Abudia especially with the first lady, the patient, Jonathan, and the new government of Abudia back in the last day. But you see, he knew to dismiss anybody, send him to Abudia. He released track of the home base. Remember how Jim Wobudu lost that in Enugu politics? He left Namani in Enugu and he went to Abudia. Before he knew it, Namani had swept up Enugu from him and the man could not even come back to Enugu again. So it was not... If Wike really had wanted to remain with the full control, you know at some point understand that Sim was not staying in government house, he was staying in the second. I understand that I am not sure. I am saying this one with caption. Because every of the appointees Sim made was refused by the realist. Sim never had his own man in appointed. All the case commissioners were the one he used. And before we came left, we kept a structure of the court to hold power in reverse state. The chief judge of this is the court man. So many people were holding certain positions where all the territory were off on the upland. Remember the river line and the upland political dichotomy comes to play. So Wike was able to fortify... He was able to fortify the government structure in reverse state by putting some of his lower list. Even the speaker was on the upland. It was one of his lower list. The chief of staff was his lower list. So he just kept Sim and Sim was in position sincerely. He was a civil servant. He felt he had written something that he can use as a puppet. But like I said, which is a business vacuum. The moment he moved to Abidya and was having a whole lot of bites, a whole lot of things to bite in Abidya, some interest would be certainly speak up in reverse state. And that interest that was bring up and they were not able to tell Sim, we are the governor. We are not in the past authority. And if that happens, then there will be conflict, which is what you see playing out. It's one aspect of the process, but it was not unexpected. Any body, any political scientist, any other that said he was not expecting what is that reverse state now. Does not understand the game of politics. But for me, it came too soon. It came not too soon. Because right now, Sim is not totally cleared. Sim still have case in the election petition. I don't know if the petitioners of APC if they went to the court of appeal and ultimately to the Supreme Court, if they did, they could still be an upset against Sim. I said they did not because the way the tribunal dismissed the petition in reverse state, it's almost as if APC were not interested in the petition. But if they choose to advance the petition to the court of appeal and also to the Supreme Court, this weekend we don't wait for them there. Because they know the just like what they did to Ngige. It was not the same BBP that pushed the rug off Ngige's feet at the tribunal. And then they give it in the news at the seat. So it's a nice thing to know about Sim. All of us, a beach that has still been playing the good boy until all his cases in the tribunal has been disposed of and then he will now have full power of the office. Arrest her. Arrest her. At this point, do you think Governor Fubara can wait through the muddy waters at the scene to have jumped into now? You think he can wait through it? Because weekend fights like a bulldog with a locked jaw on anything. So I'm just thinking he may have aroused weekend's vindictive instincts too early. Yes, I said it's too early in the day for this to have happened because it's nearly six months there is a little longer to get into power so I would have expected that Sim will have played low, not taking advice from those that are not the new kids on the block those that now want to be the new godfathers. And finished is all his petitions as after this will be cut and get cleared. Certainly, we cannot expect this rebellion. If you did not expect it you would not know how he played his own politics. You never expected it. And that is why he fortified the entire reverse architecture with his loyalists out of the children of the states. Now, we will see him survive it. Here Sim will survive it. You know why? Because he wants what is dynamic. And if you are not there today, oddly a spent what they call it a spent share of a canon is he has no influence in the best states. And much he has run out even with his bad politics as he played through the 12 lights of this last administration that he was so powerful he played the bad politics which were rather unfortunate he has run out. And so we can run out. There cannot be a time when you have two captains in the ship of reverse states. Because the true matter is a lot of people chopping on their toes even up to the traditional establishment by we think I think what you may be living out that may be to the advantage of the governor is the fact that reverse states financial pause and reverse states pause is quite is quite enormous and whoever controls that pause I wonder who can who can I often crack a joke that if you took the pause of quara state to make the sarakis lose a bank you know that Bola Mertinumbu should be thanking his god that fashula decided to chicken out in 2011 because the fashula had gone ahead wanting to wanting to assert himself as a political force Bola Mertinumbu as a political phenomenon would have been dead in the water in 2011. I think we can be careful first thing the governor of reverse state may be is political non-dimities I cannot agree with you less Bola, I cannot agree with you less the truth of the matter is you know in Lagos like I said nobody understand the Lagos model in that it is not just Bola Mertinumbu it is a force a powerful force that controls the establishment Bola Mertinumbu there are some powerful or to the traditional institutions that can call you to order I mean when fashula tried it he understands the game when you also understand the game nobody in other state government has been able state or governor has been able to replicate that model like you said the force of reverse state is huge wherever has that force has the power and the reverse people have made themselves there is always a price tag for every reverse man now which is rather sad and unfortunate this is not the reverse thing that I knew when I was a young boy when I was a small boy growing up in the cities of Papakot that lived in Mendeitiford on this street Mendeitiford on this street Taborage 39 Niger street and others this is not the reverse that I knew unfortunately right from time of people's delay he has used the resources to corrupt the reverse mind and everybody now has a price so whoever controls the treasury knows and knows his onions can buy as much flesh as possible can buy as much flesh as possible that is the reverse state of today and unfortunately if we kill my thing that has the federal power but not for the weak he is fighting so many battles now he is fighting the PDP battle and he is back bone or final PDP battle he is the force of reverse state he is the chosen of reverse state that is his back bone of the PDP battle and so now there is now how to fight reverse state where is mychuckles his finances I just i on the cybex you can never see impolitik you can never cannot tell who are the gods that He has do you understand there a good fighter we have displayed it even the transfer of reverse states what not the same again you know when you活 to some of the kings that one who was can't ㅏ natural ㄱㄑ ㅓ ㅓ ㅎ ㅓ ㅓ ㅒ ㅐ as me Continuing యం టియ్ ధిక్త్. కిమౕకని Meaning?  JENN nichts kle Amechi was the beloved of the president, he was in Abuja, just like Wike is in Abuja now, and yet he could not wield, I remember the elections for the re-election of Wike, it was alleged that Amechi went to Potakot with some soldiers, ultimately Wike was re-elected. That was in 2019, so I'm sitting here now thinking the Abuja factor may not be that potent in rivers, especially with the kind of ports that the governor controls, am I wrong? No, you are not wrong, but you see there are several dynamics in the rivers in Abuja with respect to the use of federal power, it was the federal power that Wike used against Amechi river states. Now, it depends on the sitting present, how is ready to deploy the federal power. Now, during the time of Jonathan, Jonathan was ready and willing to deploy the federal power in river states against Amechi. So, to the point that a commissioner of police challenged Amechi, I can't remember his name now, Mbuk Machinbuk, they blocked, they used the federal power to block the governor, the Wike Amechi then, from entering government house. So, it depends on the level to which the sitting president is ready to deploy the federal power. Now, in the case of Amechi, the president then, Mbuk Machinbuk, was not that a political terrorist, let me put it that way, that he wants to deploy the federal power to the level that was deployed during the time of Jonathan in river states. So, he just left it at the federal power. So, why Wike was using the power of Mbuk Machinbuk, why Amechi was using power from Mbuk Machinbuk, Wike was using the power from river states. Wike hadا escondido系 to control of the Commision of Police, he has control of the brain cells. So he used the power of river states. And so, the federal power and state power jam the entsprechend and several of the engagements in airports for operation. So the man on the ground, if Wike was able to buy him over, he had a chance, and again, most importantly, the reverse people were the big corporate here, the reverse people supported Wike, not because they liked Wike, not because they wanted a poor man after Amici, but simply because they felt Amici betrayed Genata. Genata was very strong, they just felt the APC was not popular, it's not popular in the reverse state, the largest state, was not popular, they see that the muslim, awasa, Yereba party, that's the reverse people made. So Wike was very strong, they just felt the reverse people made. Genata was very strong, they just felt the reverse people made. And so when he came in, he constantly dated and by 2019, the APC was not even in the ballot, he used every power, he used every power. Thank you very much, thank you for your interesting contributions, really very interesting, you're still very connected. Legos has not totally snatched you. And that was why we naturally came to mind when this topic came up, I wish you all the best, thank you for… My second point Bella, this point is, I just say that Terazim do not go back to the reverse state, that violence do not come back to the reverse state. And we got to take every life in the reverse state because what is happening now, might take us back to these days of court war and Terazim in the reverse state. We don't have a life to happen. Okay, thank you, thank you, I understand. Thank you for having me Bella, it's my first pleasure. We go for a short break now, I want to go back, we continue with the program.