•Wife of Rivers Head of Service Who Resigned Cries Out

The wife of the immediate former Head of Service in Rivers State Dr. George Nweke, has cried out over the mysterious disappearance of her husband.

Mrs Nwaeke said some people she did not name asked her husband to implicate the suspended Governor Sim Fubara, in a $15bn belonging to the state government which the Governor did not declare.

According Mrs Nweke, her husband was allegedly invited by a friend to Abuja after which she said the husband was quoted to have made some statements against Fubara.

A visibly upset Mrs Nweke, who granted an interview on Channels Television, said it was after the interview that her husband has been incommunicado.

She said she had asked the former Head of Service if he had made the statements credited to him under duress.

Mrs Nweke said her husband had earlier informed her that the reason for his resignation was because of some documents brought to him where he was asked to declare that the suspended Governor kept some money belonging to the state secretly adding that Nweke had said he told those who asked him to make false allegations against Fubara that he would rather quit his job.

“They said my husband is trying to cover Sim Fubara. My husband said he’s not trying to cover up. That there is nothing like that, he’s not trying to cover up anything and he’s not aware. He’s just the Head of Service; he doesn’t know anything about the finances of the State.

“He said he would not sign the document and instead, he would resign,” she said

Narrating how the whole drama stated, Mrs Nwaeke said she was in her office when her husband called to inform her he had resigned from his position, adding “when I came back he started telling me there’s another document but that they found a N15bn that the governor did not declare.”

“He said he does not know anything about that one that what he handed over to them is what the governor handed over to them. When they pressurised him. He now wrote his resignation that he cannot sign what he does not know or is not true.”

NPO Reports that Nwaeke resigned from his positions days after the newly appointed Sole Administrator of the state, Rear Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas resumed after the suspension of Fubara through the declaration of a state of emergency by President Bola Tinubu.

The state of emergency climaxed a wave of political upheavals rocking the South-South state over the dispute between the governor and his predecessor, Nyesome Wike.

Wike, the current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, had orchestrated the election into office of Fubara in 2023.

However, the godfather and the godson fell apart months after the commencement of Fubara’s tenure.

Wike had vowed to ensure the removal of the governor.