Former local government chairmen in Rivers State have accused Gov Siminalayi Fubara of sponsoring the attack on the Portharcourt residence of the immediate past governor and FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike on Tuesday, during the #Endbadgovernance protest.

While warning that Fubara did not have the monopoly of violence, the ex-LG chairmen threatened to mobilise their men to equally unleash an attack on Fubara’s properties.

Amid the nationwide hunger protest, demonstrators had on Tuesday marched to Wike’s along Ada George Road in Port Harcourt and laid siege to it, changing war songs and calling the ex-governor unprintable names.

It took the presence and vigilance of policemen to resist the protesters who attempted to invade the mansion.

Speaking on Wednesday under the aegis of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, Rivers State chapter, the chairmen, who were elected during Wike’s tenure as Rivers State governor, accused incumbent Governor Siminalayi Fubara, of sponsoring the ruffians who stormed Wike’s residence.

A former Chairman of the Emuoha Local Government Area, Dr Chidi Lloyd, said, “We are aware that he (Fubara) directed the protesters to go to the residence of the minister. We will also organise our people and go to Forces Avenue where he is building on a 32-plot of land.

“We will not allow him to destroy all that we have achieved in this state just because he knows nothing about leadership. So the protesters should gather in the government house and ask him what he has done with the N238bn he collected between May and June.”

But in a swift reaction, the state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Joseph Johnson, said the erstwhile LG chairmen sounded like broken records.

“If you ask me, they have finished their tenure and have gone by our own law. So, what they are doing is meddling in what does not concern them. They are like ordinary citizens.

“What they are doing is like the last kick of a dying horse. They are already gone and the court has pronounced them as such.”