Becks Dagogo-Jack, former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Power, has stated that FCT Minister and former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, would not have succeeded in office if he had faced 27 disloyal lawmakers, whom he described as “snakes.”
Speaking on Saturday in an interview on Arise Television, Dagogo-Jack noted that the political crisis in Rivers State has affected residents but is not linked to Governor Siminal Fubara personally. He explained that the issue stems from lawmakers prioritising personal loyalty over state interests.
“There was an agenda. The agenda ran into a glitch. Since then, there has been effort to recover instead of pulling back, withdrawing, apologizing and allowing the governor to do his tenure as everybody else has done,” he said.
Dagogo-Jack praised Fubara’s composure, discipline, and humility, adding that these qualities prevent him from falling into the traps set by the rebellious legislators. “We have 27 Assembly members who have decided that they will not be loyal to the state. They were loyal to an individual, and they constituted themselves into snakes in the House. How many people can live in a house with 27 snakes?” he asked.
He further emphasised the difficulty of governing amid such disloyalty, arguing that even Wike would have struggled to achieve his accomplishments, like building flyover bridges, under similar circumstances. “It’s difficult to even say you want to assess Fubara because where are you starting from? He’s fighting, he’s working, he’s fighting. He can’t sleep,” Dagogo-Jack concluded.
