FCT Minister Nyesom Wike is frequently in the news, whether for the right or wrong reasons. The former Rivers State Governor has managed to maintain a presence in the public eye since his first political office in 2015.

Succeeding former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, it has been a rollercoaster ride for the chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as he fell out with his former boss after serving as his Chief of Staff.

Fast forward to the present, the feud with current governor Siminalayi Fubara has brought back some of his past comments.

In a 2021 interview, Wike, who was then the governor of Rivers State, claimed that God used him to help make Rotimi Amaechi the state governor in 2007. He emphasized that Amaechi had said he was next in his life after God.

During the interview on BBC Pidgin in Port Harcourt, he mentioned that the minister had declared in a church that he (Wike) was next in his life after God and allowed him to choose any position in his government after playing a crucial role in Amaechi’s governorship.

The governor also mentioned that Amaechi had wanted to appoint him as a commissioner, but he declined and chose to be the Chief of Staff instead.

He said, “I was not close to Amaechi. We were just in the same party and in politics everybody has an ambition. He has his own. I don’t regret that as of that time, we preferred him to be governor. We fought it and God crowned our efforts and he became a governor.

“He is in APC and I am in PDP. So don’t expect me to support what he is doing in APC. He said I was his employee. What he said was not good. God used me to make him the governor. I will give you a tape where Amaechi spoke in church saying after God, I came next. But when he spoke the other day, he said I was his employee. No problem, but an employee that dealt with him here (Rivers State).”