For Secretary to Nigeria bar association Port Harcourt branch and PDP legal adviser in Rivers State Chief Kingsley Chuku, has called while addressing journalists in Abuja on Saturday, September 16 faulted the statement made by Atiku’s ally Barister Daniel Bwala that when Atiku and others were founding the PDP, Nyesom Wike, the minister of the federal capital territory and former governor of Rivers State, was working at the motor park with the National Union of Road Transport Workers and honurable Azubuike Nmerekini the former mayor of Port Harcourt.
According to Chuku, the former governor was a legal practitioner before becoming the chairman of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area in Rivers State.
He further revealed that Wike was well known with the E.C Ukala & Co. law firm in Port Harcourt before he joined politics.
Recall that the FCT Minister attended University of Port Harcourt then Rivers State University and was a legal practitioner before joining politics and latter became a two term Local Government chairman of Obio-Akpor then chief of staff to RT Honourable chibuike Rotimi Amaechi the former governor of Rivers State before he became the minister of state for Education and the Governor of Rivers State.
"Therefore, Bwala's comment is a figment of his imagination and I would have thought that a legal mind would do due diligence before going public with such misinformation.
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