A former governor of Rivers Nyesom Wike has made a claim against his successor Siminalayi Fubara.

The FCT Minister accused Fubara of sponsoring the Action Peoples Party (APP) in the just-ended local government election in the oil-rich state.

Governor Fubara had days ago sworn in local government chairpersons in Rivers State. APP won 22 of the 23 chairmanship positions in the election. The chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State also attended the event.

In the lead-up to the poll, Fubara who is a member of the PDP said he is the “greatest loser” since his party was not on the ballot.

But Wike who is now the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) claims Fubara sponsored the APP for the election.

“Today, people say ‘Discipline Wike, he did anti-party’. I did not do anti-party; I said we must stand for equity, fairness, and justice’,” he said on Tuesday’s edition of Channels Television’s Sunday Politics about his support of President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 election.